Are there any particular algorithm you are interested in?
Anyways, back to bindings for GSL. Noel Welsh has bindings for an older
version of GSL.
It could be a starting point for making a new version
https://github.com/noelwelsh/mzgsl
Note also this old thread:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-users/K_d06Jy-B8I
/Jens Axel
2017-06-02 10:56 GMT+02:00 Alasdair McAndrew <[email protected]>:
> On Friday, June 2, 2017 at 3:24:12 PM UTC+10, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> > On 02/06/17 02:50, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> >
> > > I have been experimenting with the bigfloat library, which I
> understand to be a wrapper for the GNU MPFR library. And it works well.
> But I'm wondering if anybody's given thought about porting other scientific
> libraries, such as GNU GSL to Racket. Is this the sort of thing which
> would be very difficult indeed - or are there tools available to do the
> heavy lifting, so to speak, as well as much of the coding drudgery? I
> would certainly like to have access to GSL.
> >
> > Racket's foreign-function interface is pretty good:
> >
> > http://docs.racket-lang.org/foreign/
> >
> > Moreover, compared to other languages (Python etc.), you have macros to
> > abstract away much of the boilerplate that wrappers inevitably require.
> >
> > The main work is (1) designing a good API on the Racket side and (2)
> > providing sufficient tests that users will trust the code. For GSL the
> > API should not be too hard because its structure is simple and it
> > doesn't rely on complex data structures.
> >
> > - Konrad.
>
> Thank you very much - that would appear to be the way to go. I note that
> GSL has been ported to Common Lisp, using a similar approach (libffi) - see
> https://common-lisp.net/project/gsll/ so I suppose it could also be
> ported to Racket.
>
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