From: Tuomo Keskitalo <Tuomo.Keskitalo@iki.fi>
To: Patrick Alken <patrick.alken@colorado.edu>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: simplicity vs. efficiency of algorithms in GSL
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D7E476.2010000@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080922162507.GA29877@hippogriff.homeunix.org>
On 09/22/2008 07:25 PM, Patrick Alken wrote:
> There are much faster (and far more sophisticated) eigenvalue
> algorithms that are not really suited for GSL due to their
> complexity to code. LAPACK contains these types of algorithms
> and it is encouraged to use that library if one needs the
> fastest available algorithms.
About this point: I have been wondering where the balance of GSL should
be on simplicity vs. efficiency of the code. Of course, even a simple
algorithm is better than none, but I think it would be good to offer
efficient routines in GSL. If somebody publishes a well written,
efficient eigenvalue algorithm, would it get included in GSL? Or would
it be better off as an extension library?
--
Tuomo.Keskitalo@iki.fi
http://iki.fi/tuomo.keskitalo
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[not found] ` <20080922162507.GA29877@hippogriff.homeunix.org>
2008-09-22 18:32 ` Tuomo Keskitalo [this message]
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
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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