Re: alternate multimin api

2006-05-30 Thread Brian Gough
James Bergstra writes: > while (! m->giveup ) > { > minalgo_suggest(m); > if (m->want_y) > { > ... calculate m->test.y from m->test.x; > } This type of API is called 'reverse communication'. It is more flexible

alternate multimin api

2006-05-15 Thread James Bergstra
Hello, I would like to suggest supplementing the multidimensional minimization API with a lower-level layer of access, that could at the same time support a re-implementation of the existing API. Although not as bulletproof as I'd expect GSL code to be, the following brief header and sample prog