/* linbox/matrix/matrix-category.h
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Pascal Giorgi
 *
 * Written by :
 *               Pascal Giorgi  pascal.giorgi@ens-lyon.fr
 *
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 * This file is part of the library LinBox.
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 */

#ifndef __LINBOX_matrix_category_H
#define __LINBOX_matrix_category_H


namespace LinBox
{


	/** \brief For specializing matrix arithmetic
	 *
	 * This class defines matrix categories that allow us to specialize the matrix
	 * arithmetic in \ref MatrixDomain for different matrix representations. For
	 * example, a sparse matrix may have an efficient iterator over row vectors but
	 * not over column vectors. Therefore, an algorithm that tries to iterate over
	 * column vectors will run very slowly. Hence a specialization that avoids using
	 * column vectors is used instead.
	 */
	struct MatrixCategories {
		struct BlackboxTag { };
		struct IndexedMatrixTag : public virtual BlackboxTag { } ;
		struct RowMatrixTag : public virtual BlackboxTag { };
		struct ColMatrixTag : public virtual BlackboxTag { };
		struct RowColMatrixTag : public RowMatrixTag, public ColMatrixTag { };
	};


	struct MatrixContainerCategory {
		struct BlasContainer{};
		struct Container{};
		struct Blackbox{};
	};




}

#endif //__LINBOX_matrix_category_H

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