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Re: gslclapack
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- To: James Bergstra <james dot bergstra at umontreal dot ca>
- Cc: gsl-discuss <gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:48:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: gslclapack
- References: <20060326024112.GD10650@aphex.iro.umontreal.ca>
James Bergstra writes:
> On one hand, I'm jealous that lapack has a fancy routine, and react "let's
> implement that for gsl too" and on the other hand, I think "why is gsl
> re-implementing (what I believe is) a very standard library?"
LAPACK is huge & tedious to install. GSL is meant to be easy to use -
a dependency on lapack would be a pain.