From: Z F <mail4me9999@yahoo.com>
To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org, Gerard Jungman <jungman@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: simplicity vs. efficiency of algorithms in GSL
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <296286.17807.qm@web110515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222301240.30638.146.camel@bellerophon.lanl.gov>
Hello Jerry,
> For the same reason, simplicity vs efficiency is not the
> right argument.
> Experts should produce the the most efficient code, in some
> rational
> and usable form, and we should use it. The only thing that
> prevents us
> from doing this tomorrow is that, as far as I can tell, no
> expert has
> managed to produce what we need in a rational and usable
> form. For me,
> rational and usable means that it solves all those tedious
> problems
> that plague the fortran-to-anything-else interface. At
> least that
> would be a start.
>
> Of course, I like things to be neat and tidy; that's
> just me. Maybe
> other people don't mind having to cobble things
> together, but I have
> a very low threshold for that. There's no work I do
> that is so
> compelling that I don't care how painful it is to get
> the answer.
> And I always want better tools.
BRAVO!!
ZF
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[not found] <200809221621.54890.emanuele.passera@treuropa.com>
[not found] ` <20080922162507.GA29877@hippogriff.homeunix.org>
2008-09-22 18:32 ` Tuomo Keskitalo
2008-09-22 19:48 ` Patrick Alken
2008-09-22 21:01 ` Robert G. Brown
2008-09-23 21:52 ` Gerard Jungman
2008-09-24 21:19 ` Brian Gough
2008-09-25 0:07 ` Gerard Jungman
2008-09-25 3:07 ` Andrew W. Steiner
2008-09-25 3:50 ` Z F [this message]
2008-09-26 21:48 ` Brian Gough
2008-09-27 6:12 ` Jochen Küpper
2008-09-29 13:35 ` Brian Gough
2008-10-07 21:14 ` Gerard Jungman
2008-10-09 18:38 ` Tuomo Keskitalo
2008-10-09 18:57 ` Frank Reininghaus
2008-10-09 21:17 ` Gerard Jungman
2008-10-10 0:05 ` Gerard Jungman
2008-10-10 15:50 ` Robert G. Brown
2008-10-10 18:47 ` James Amundson
2008-10-11 2:48 ` Brian Gough
2008-10-14 21:33 ` Gerard Jungman
2008-10-14 22:41 ` Daniel Franke
2008-10-16 22:20 ` Gerard Jungman
2008-10-17 13:27 ` Brian Gough
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