On May 11, 6:39 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jason Grout
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> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >> On Sat, 10 May 2008, Jason Grout wrote:
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> >>> 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?
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> >> +1 -- if it isn't already, GSL will soon be GPL3 only.
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> > 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.
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> > Jason
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> 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
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