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complex physical problems requiring an advanced mathematical formulation,
when one is interested in getting numerical simulations, the 90% of the
operations involved are purely a basically multi-index linear algebra.
So efficient numerical and simbolic linear algebra is for me
extremely necessary.

Blitz++ and Ftensor, are libraries that can be used for matrices and
tensor indicial operations.
Their use allows to compute in a efficient manner operations
like:
A=B+C+D  (blitz style)
A(i)=B(i)+C(i)+D(i) (Ftensor Style)
for vector, tensor or matrices A,B,C,D by removing the need of
temporaries:
temp1=C+D
temp2=B+temp1;  etc...

These libraries do a type of loop unrollment using expression  templates,
which seems to me not very portable, requires long compilation
times, the tasks are handled to the preprocessor, etc. I don't like
these things.

The ideal thing for me would be to have a program where I
could perform:
First a set of of symbolic math steps, where one can define
operations such as:
A=B+C+D
for indexed expressions, where the range and step of the
indices could be controlled: for example idx i=[2, 3, 4,... indexdim].
Then use the symbolic math part to obtain unrolled indexed
expressions like:
for (idx i =1 ; i<indexdim; i++)
A(i)=B(i) +C(i)+D(i)
end
linked or pointing to numerical arrays numeric A[], numeric B[], numeric 
C[],
so to be able to get numerical values very efficiently

The point being that since numerical simulations are done
recursively/iteratively the symbolic step could be done only once at
the beginning, and the numerical unrolled efficient part could be done 
afterwards for
the remaining iterations.

I think Ginac is closer to be able to do this than blitz++ o
ftensor, but it is not clear for me how far Ginac is to perform the tasks
I mentioned above.

Cheers,
Alejandro