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.
>
>
> If we do this, then I think that much of the code in RDF and CDF becomes
> simple calls to numpy, and the current functions that fall back to
> generic algorithms (like inverse()) also become easy calls to numpy
> functions which do proper numerical linear algebra.
>
> Josh, apparently you did lots of work in this area; I'm particularly
> interested in hearing your comments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>
> >
>
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