From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18937 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2008 13:35:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 18925 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Sep 2008 13:35:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.network-theory.co.uk (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:34:25 +0000 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: From: Brian Gough To: GSL Discuss Mailing List Subject: Re: simplicity vs. efficiency of algorithms in GSL In-Reply-To: <9ACA4123-675A-43C1-9200-F0AABB076117@googlemail.com> 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> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/22.2 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Message-Mac: 7c84e9504ef25d7e8e6a94e729058bd8 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-q3/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 At Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:10:55 +0200, Jochen Küpper wrote: > It does bother me (and colleagues) a lot that neither the ODE solvers > nor the LA routines are really up to speed. My colleagues and myself > are really considering to abandon the GSL because we want better ODE > solvers and better eigenvalue/vector routines! Thanks for your comments. I agree that the ODE solvers need improvement, I think some of the algorithms used in CVODE are being implemented by Tuomo Keskitalo. -- Brian Gough