From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32338 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2008 15:50:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 32329 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Oct 2008 15:50:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.phy.duke.edu (HELO mail.phy.duke.edu) (152.3.182.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:49:11 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.phy.duke.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64D7150789; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:49:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.phy.duke.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.phy.duke.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with LMTP id DW-c-DN2a6XJ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:49:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phy12.phy.duke.edu (phy12.phy.duke.edu [152.3.183.112]) by mail.phy.duke.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3CF150147; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:49:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:50:00 -0000 From: "Robert G. Brown" To: Gerard Jungman cc: GSL Discuss Mailing List Subject: Re: simplicity vs. efficiency of algorithms in GSL In-Reply-To: <1223597049.14338.126.camel@bellerophon.lanl.gov> Message-ID: 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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/msg00009.txt.bz2 On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Gerard Jungman wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 21:37 +0300, Tuomo Keskitalo wrote: > >> I, too, would very much like to see a good interface for linear algebra! > > It may be too soon to have a party, but I'm excited about the > following, which was just brought to my attention. The ten-year > wait may soon be over. > > http://icl.cs.utk.edu/~delmas/lapwrapc.html > > It's a draft standard for a C LAPACK interface. > > Apparently the LAPACK group is working with Intel to create a final > version of the standard. It may be done early next year. Perhaps it's > time to start thinking seriously about this. 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. Just a thought. rgb > > -- > G. Jungman > > -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977