On 4/7/09, Gideon Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Brian Gough wrote: > > > > At Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:09:36 -0400, > > Gideon Simpson wrote: > > > > > If I have an array of points at which I want to evaluate a bessel > > > function, I should expect better performance by using > > > gsl_sf_bessel_sequence_Jnu_e, as opposed to gsl_sf_bessel_Jnu, right? > > > > > > > Yes, that's the intent. > > > > Would it surprise you if I said that I found the SciPy python wrapped > interfaces to the fortran specfun code to be faster than GSL for this? > > -gideon
Faster by how much? Fortran libraries are known to be faster than GSL. I would not loose my sleep over 10-20%. If, on the other hand, Fortran Bessel function is several times faster then it is a different matter. --Leo-- _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
