Saltype Documentation

Brief description

Saltype stands for Symbolic Algebra Light Type. It’s main purpose is to provide symbolic derivatives for systems of several thousand variables efficiently in terms of performance and memory. With that, the objective is not to be fit to hold a candle to established packages like sympy or CaSAdi, but to have a lightweight package to fulfil particular needs. The main feature and strategy is that performance of core functionality is not compromised by any additional functionality or convenience.

In its current version, it is even pure python. Porting into a C-extension is possible for further performance gain, but the subsequent compiler/version/platform dependencies freak me out.

Date:

07.05.2024

Author:

Volker Siepmann <volker.siepmann@gmail.com>

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Background and objective
  • Key concept
  • Typical application and workflow
• Advanced topics
  • Floats and Leafs
  • Empanadas and Empanadiñas
  • Iterative algorithms
• Limitations
  • Necessity of invalidate
  • Acyclicity
  • Numpy and Scipy incompatibility
  • Conditionals
  • Stack-size
• API documentation
  • Saltype datatypes
  • Tools

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page