These ongoing discussions about Numpy and matrices versus arrays might be of interest:
http://groups.google.com/group/Numpy-discussion/browse_thread/thread/fe349bb7f1a1809a http://groups.google.com/group/Numpy-discussion/browse_thread/thread/63441776acd05034 Joachim On May 11, 8:27 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 11, 6:39 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jason Grout > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 10 May 2008, Jason Grout wrote: > > > >>> Currently CDF and RDF matrices wrap GSL matrices and use GSL algorithms > > >>> for part of the computations. After talking with a few lead developers > > >>> on IRC, it seems that the consensus is that numpy is generally better > > >>> and has a much, much stronger community. What do people think of moving > > >>> the RDF and CDF matrices to a numpy backend? > > > >> +1 -- if it isn't already, GSL will soon be GPL3 only. > > > > GSL 1.10 (released in March, IIRC) is GPL3. I think we are sticking > > > with GPL1.9 for the time being, if I remember correctly. > > > > Jason > > > No. Sage has shipped GSL 1.10 for a long long time. > > And GSL 1.9 is a drop in replacement. Incidentally we have to work > around a bug in GSL 1.10, so so far I don't see any benefit from the > 1.10 release. > > > -- William > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
