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[Robert C Kirby <kirby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Small correction:
> Blitz++: 1.7
> ublas:   1.95
>
> ublas (http://www.boost.org/libs/numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm) looks
> really nice and provides everything I would like to have for a dense
> matrix. It's a template library, we don't have to worry about linking 
> to
> it. If we use it, we could avoid a dependency by including the header
> files in DOLFIN somewhere, something like dolfin/contrib?

Careful again -- blitz is templated but there is a small static library 
you do have to link against.  Be careful about how many dependencies 
there are hidden underneath uBlas (especially as it's part of a bigger 
project).  This is not a statement of knowledge but suspicion.  I'm 
happen to be proven wrong.
Also, templates can create portability/compiler problems if used too 
creatively (see blitz).
I have not worked with uBlas, but suggest compiling with a couple of 
different versions of g++ on mac/linux/cygwin and also the intel 
compiler on some platforms before committing.

That said, I'm very much in favor of doing less code instead of more, 
but there can be corner cases in portability and other headaches.

Rob