Well, I tried the same with "Array2DRowRealMatrix" but it made no difference at all.
Meanwhile I cloned the CM snapshot and checked the source code. The authors of the "LUDecomposition" class state that their code "is based on the class with similar name from the JAMA library" but this seems not the case! The Jama implementation is quite different -- actually the same as the alternate (Num. Recipes) implementation I had supplied earlier (and also runs at the expected speed)! So, whatever the reason was to abandon the JAMA version, the current Commons Math implementation is certainly much inferior in terms of performance. Which is astonishing given the popularity of this method. Will ask the "dev" mailing list, as suggested ... Thanks, Wilhelm -- View this message in context: http://apache-commons.680414.n4.nabble.com/math-LU-decomposition-very-SLOW-commons-math3-linear-tp4692255p4692283.html Sent from the Commons - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org