Patrick,

On 2006-05-18 10:40 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:21:33AM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:45:10PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > >   I have recently needed to compute eigenvalues of unsymmetric
> > > matrices,
> >
> > When I hit ths problem, someone recommended LAPACK, which
> > I then used happily (routine DGEEV). This mailing list has
> > seen occasional discusions about how to wrap/merge/whatever
> > LAPACK routines with gsl (a technical problem is that LAPACK
> > uses the fortran calling convention, making it ugly in C.)
> 
> LAPACK I believe uses the same QR algorithm which I have been
> implementing, so if I can make it as robust as LAPACK's
> implementation it should be a far better alternative than
> linking to fortran code.

Are you taking into consideration performance of the code?  How do you
currently compare against NETLIB LAPACK?  


Kenneth Tan
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