MATLAB-Like Scripting of Java Scientific Libraries in ScalaLab
Author(s) -
Stergios Papadimitriou,
Seferina Mavroudi,
Kostas Theofilatos,
Spiridon Likothanasis
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
scientific programming
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.269
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1875-919X
pISSN - 1058-9244
DOI - 10.1155/2014/570902
Subject(s) - java , computer science , scripting language , bytecode , real time java , programming language , software engineering , java annotation , matlab , strictfp
Although there are a lot of robust and effective scientific libraries in Java, the utilization of these libraries in pure Java is difficult and cumbersome, especially for the average scientist that does not expertise in software development. We illustrate that ScalaLab presents an easier and productive MATLAB like front end. Also, the main strengths and weaknesses of the core Java libraries of ScalaLab are elaborated. Since performance is of paramount importance for scientific computation, the article discusses extensively performance aspects of the ScalaLab environment. Also, Java bytecode performance is compared to native code.
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