Chebfun is a lot more full featured, and ApproxFun is _very_ rough
around the edges. ApproxFun will probably end up a very different animal than
chebfun: right now the goal is to tackle PDEs on a broader class of domains,
something I think is beyond the scope of Chebfun due to issues with Matlab's
speed, memory management, etc.
Here’s a partial list of features in Chebfun not in ApproxFun:
1) Automatic edge detection and domain splitting
2) Support for delta functions
3) Built-in time stepping (pde15s)
4) Eigenvalue problems
5) Automatic nonlinear ODE solver
6) Operator exponential
7) Smarter constructor for determining convergence
8) Automatic differentiation
I have no concrete plans at the moment of adding these features, though
eigenvalue problems and operator exponentials will likely find their way in at
some point.
Sheehan
On 12 Sep 2014, at 12:14 am, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is great!
>
> At this point, what are the major differences in functionality between
> ApproxFun and Chebfun?
