From: Tuomo Keskitalo <Tuomo.Keskitalo@iki.fi>
To: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
Cc: Gerard Jungman <jungman@lanl.gov>, gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: some general questions
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD76C4B.6060703@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r5t5g34s.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
Hello,
On 10/14/2009 10:57 PM, Brian Gough wrote:
>> I don't think this is a problem for machine solution. It's up to
>> us to decide how the thing is organized. What depends on what,
>> which parts are foundational, and which parts are built on
>> top of those? Then we should organize the code so it
>> expresses that.
>
> I was just thinking that it's not always obvious what the dependencies
> are. For example, the special functions depend on linear algebra
> (through the Mathieu function, which needs to compute some
> eigenvalues) and there may be some other cases like that.
ode-initval is another example. None of the explicit methods are
dependent on linear algebra, while implicit methods are. Would we need
to split the code in this case?
--
Tuomo.Keskitalo@iki.fi
http://iki.fi/tuomo.keskitalo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-15 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-05 10:12 containers tentative design summary Gerard Jungman
2009-10-05 14:50 ` James Bergstra
2009-10-05 23:00 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-05 23:45 ` James Bergstra
2009-10-06 19:59 ` Gerard Jungman
[not found] ` <645d17210910060537s762d6323pfd2bec8590ad28e9@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 20:02 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-23 21:28 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-27 23:06 ` Gerard Jungman
[not found] ` <7f1eaee30910271628h70785125m68e47c7a7b5c25b7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-27 23:49 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-29 18:06 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-29 20:41 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-29 21:40 ` James Bergstra
2009-10-30 16:54 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-30 16:54 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-05 23:04 ` some general questions Gerard Jungman
2009-10-06 16:21 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-06 20:32 ` Gerard Jungman
2009-10-10 14:45 ` Tuomo Keskitalo
2009-10-24 11:16 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-14 20:00 ` Brian Gough
2009-10-15 18:39 ` Tuomo Keskitalo [this message]
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