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vMAT uses a ruby DSL to do code generation for certain repetitive code patterns. For example, the way coercions between matrices of different types is handled (dynamically, at runtime¹) currently requires implementing an Objective-C++ dispatch method to copy to every numeric type from every numeric type. With 10 distinct numeric types that is 100 Objective-C++ methods that are slight variations of the same method template.

This is the problem that vMATCodeMonkey was designed to solve. Read on →

The vMAT library is intended to make moving code and data between MATLAB¹ and Objective-C++ apps as straightforward and painless as possible.

• The vMAT_Array class provides an Objective-C container type encapsulating matrices and arrays.
• Overloaded operators and core numerical algorithms are provided by the Eigen C++ template library; the vMAT::Mat template class provides C++ code access to the contents of a vMAT_Array as an Eigen::Map matrix.
• The vMAT_load and vMAT_save API functions provide read/write access to MATLAB’s .mat files for array data storage.
• A small (but growing) library of commonly-used MATLAB functions are provided as C-style vMAT_API functions.
• The library is packaged using CocoaPods for convenient dependency management, and distributed under the OSI-approved, commercial-developer-friendly BSD 2-Clause License.