Root finding for specific polynomials

[Brian Gough]

Charlie Zender writes:
 > I'm wondering if there are any plans to implement optimized GSL
 > functions for finding roots of specific polynomials, e.g., Legendre
 > polynomials.

No plans to add anything myself... if somebody wants to come up with
an implementation that sounds fine by me.

 > It seems to me there might be a place in GSL for optimized
 > root-finding functions for the special functions.  Certainly there
 > are an abundance of such accelerated techniques that could be added
 > over time.