On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Patrick Alken wrote: > > gsl_blas_dgemv?!? Holy smokes! No wonder I had a hard time finding it. > > Has anyone thought of renaming this function something like > > "gsl_matrix_multiply()"? > > The "basic" linear algebra functions like matrix*matrix, matrix*vector > etc are done in a separate "BLAS" (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) > library. The naming convention is confusing since I believe its > from the old fortran conventions, but the "mv" means matrix*vector. > The "d" means double precision and I don't off hand know what the ge > means, but you can read the blas docs for more info.
The "ge" means general matrix, as opposed to symmetric, etc. matrix. See eg http://www.netlib.org/blas/blas2-paper.ps _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
