Torch vs Units

Torch

http://torch.ch (by torch)

Scientific Computing

Source Code

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Units

A run-time C++ library for working with units of measurement and conversions between them and with string representations of units and measurements (by LLNL)

Scientific Computing CPP Energy math-physics physical-units Measurements unit-conversions Conversion si-units string-conversions

Source Code

units.readthedocs.io

Docs

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Our great sponsors

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

Our great sponsors

Torch		Units
	Project
2	Mentions	2
8,947	Stars	130
0.0%	Growth	1.5%
0.0	Activity	7.2
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
C	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Torch

Posts with mentions or reviews of Torch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-22.

TinyGL 0.4.1
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2022

Yes, kind of, but it depends on NumPy which is fairly big if your goal is for students to grasp and demystify the whole way down to the hardware. Other candidates would be torch7 [1], but it is somewhat married to the Lua API which drives it.
[1]: https://github.com/torch/torch7
Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2021

Units

Posts with mentions or reviews of Units. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

TIL the USA was supposed to adopt the metric system but the ship carrying the standardized meter and kilogram was hijacked by pirates in 1793 and the measurements never made it to the States
1 project | /r/todayilearned | 26 Jan 2023

Yes I would download this code
LLNL/units - runtime C++ unit conversion library
1 project | /r/opensource | 9 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Torch and Units you can also consider the following projects:

GSL - GNU Scientific Library with CMake build support and AMPL bindings

Dimwits - A compact C++ header-only library providing compile-time dimensional analysis and unit awareness

FFTW - DO NOT CHECK OUT THESE FILES FROM GITHUB UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. (See below.)

Blitz++ - Git mirror of Blitz++ at http://sourceforge.net/projects/blitz/

Kratos - Kratos Multiphysics (A.K.A Kratos) is a framework for building parallel multi-disciplinary simulation software. Modularity, extensibility and HPC are the main objectives. Kratos has BSD license and is written in C++ with extensive Python interface.

preCICE - A coupling library for partitioned multi-physics simulations, including, but not restricted to fluid-structure interaction and conjugate heat transfer simulations.

HELICS - Hierarchical Engine for Large-scale Infrastructure Co-Simulation (HELICS)

Trilinos - Primary repository for the Trilinos Project