<div>I can compute such a multiplication within a second using BLAS over a =
single threaded process.</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br></div></=
blockquote></div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t think anyone(*) is suggesting t=
hat XQuery or JSONiq should be anyone&#39;s number 1 choice for doing a mat=
rix multiplication. The key thing is to make the language powerful enough s=
o that if you have an application doing 300 tasks, the fact that one of the=
m involves matrix mutliplication shouldn&#39;t stop you.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just like XSLT isn&#39;t one&#39;s obvious choice of gr=
aphics programming language, but it&#39;s sure handy that you can use it to=
generate an SVG histogram or pie chart.</div><div><br></div><div>(*) well,=
I exclude the XQuery fanatics from this....</div>
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