MatClass v2.0

Christopher Birchenhall
School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester
Chris.Birchenhall@man.ac.uk

Abstract

The Geneva conference will be used to announce the release of version 2.0 of MatClass and the presentation will outline the current state of MatClass which has been updated and extended since its first release at the Montreal meeting of the SEDC. The paper will briefly discuss the design of MatClass as an efficient and portable numerical library. The role of advanced C++ features, such as templates and exception handling, will be discussed. I/O in Version 2.0 continues to be stream based, but it includes facilities to generate 2-D graphs in PostScript and tables in LaTeX. Simple econometric jobs are supported in a set of classes based on Jon Stewart's ECOS program and textbooks. The LaTeX documentation for version 2.0 will be appropriately updated; help files based on Web technology are under development. A suite of test programmes and examples of major applications, particularly in genetic algorithms, will be released with this version. Speculation on the potential use of the newer Web technology, particularly JAVA and VRML, will complete the presentation.