On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Jessie Oberreuter <joberreu-elecr...@moselle.com> wrote: >... it isn't going to change the world... ============ I remember about 30 years ago when the Karmarkar algorithm for linear optimization appeared. On certain problems, it appeared that it would be about 10x as fast as conventional schemes. At the place I was working we were doing lots of big linear problems involving bond portfolios, and we got all excited. One of the guys laboriously wrote code to implement it, only to discover that on our kind of problems, the plain-vanilla simplex approach we had been using was about 10x faster than the new fancy one.
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