random variate from power exponential distribution: performances

[Linas Vepstas]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 06:25:02PM +0200, Giulio Bottazzi was heard to remark:
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> gcc -O3 -march=i686 -lgsl -lgslcblas testran.c -o testran

Hmm, 

I guess I should have read your source code first, before posting.
My apologies, for what you have written, optimization makes very 
little difference.   I thought you were recompiling the guts of gsl,
rather than merely making calls to gsl routines.

--linas