Speed Issues

[Brian Gough]

David Ronis writes:
 > Hi Brian,
 > 
 > The clock calls as far as I know, measure CPU time, not total runtime.
 > 

A comparison of the two routines would need to consider,
- choice of algorithm 
- precision of result
- convergence criteria
- number of iterations / function evaluations

If the 30% difference is a problem you could try the some of the other
algorithms or use gprof to profile the library and look for hotspots.

Brian