From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27449 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2008 18:47:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 27419 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Oct 2008 18:47:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mailgw1.fnal.gov (HELO mailgw1.fnal.gov) (131.225.111.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:47:03 +0000 Received: from mailav1.fnal.gov (mailav1.fnal.gov [131.225.111.18]) by mailgw1.fnal.gov (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.06 (built Mar 28 2005)) with SMTP id <0K8J007DNCVIEB@mailgw1.fnal.gov> for gsl-discuss@sourceware.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:33:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailgw1.fnal.gov ([131.225.111.11]) by mailav1.fnal.gov (SAVSMTP 3.1.7.47) with SMTP id M2008101013331817809 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:33:18 -0500 Received: from conversion-daemon.mailgw1.fnal.gov by mailgw1.fnal.gov (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.06 (built Mar 28 2005)) id <0K8J00C01C7PFQ@mailgw1.fnal.gov> (original mail from amundson@fnal.gov) for gsl-discuss@sourceware.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:33:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [131.225.82.253] (null-0016d3c40d53.dhcp.fnal.gov [131.225.82.253]) by mailgw1.fnal.gov (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.06 (built Mar 28 2005)) with ESMTPSA id <0K8J0061FCVI69@mailgw1.fnal.gov>; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:33:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:47:00 -0000 From: James Amundson Subject: Re: simplicity vs. efficiency of algorithms in GSL In-reply-to: To: "Robert G. Brown" Cc: Gerard Jungman , GSL Discuss Mailing List Message-id: <48EF9FEE.2010707@fnal.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) References: <200809221621.54890.emanuele.passera@treuropa.com> <20080922162507.GA29877@hippogriff.homeunix.org> <48D7E476.2010000@iki.fi> <20080922195029.GA9060@hippogriff.homeunix.org> <1222206451.30638.62.camel@bellerophon.lanl.gov> <1222301240.30638.146.camel@bellerophon.lanl.gov> <9ACA4123-675A-43C1-9200-F0AABB076117@googlemail.com> <1223413980.14338.96.camel@bellerophon.lanl.gov> <48EE4F5F.7000707@iki.fi> <1223597049.14338.126.camel@bellerophon.lanl.gov> Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q4/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 Robert G. Brown wrote: > > If there is a draft version of the standard, it would probably be GOOD > to implement it in something like GSL, as IMO "problems" with the > proposed standard are likely to surface only in widespread use anyway. > It it actually were implemented (even as a sort of "beta" form, clearly > announced as such) before they do finish the final version, we might be > able to comment on or resolve any emergent problems in time to get > solutions into the standard. > I am in complete agreement. I would not only like to see GSL get it right, I would like to see LAPACK get it right. --Jim Amundson