Well, it would be nice to have good sparse matrix routines for use
within maxima.
Is it better to have these as internal routines or to simply call
them up via foreign language interfaces?
-sen
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Raymond Toy wrote:
> sen1 at math.msu.edu wrote:
>> For what it's worth, I think it would be nice to translate and include
>> ARPACK to lisp and maxima.
>>
> I've looked at this very briefly. It seems possible to convert this to lisp
> via f2cl, except for the non-standard "include" statements.
>
> ARPACK, however, requires LAPACK and BLAS to work.
>
> Is there real interest in ARPACK with maxima?
>
> Ray
>
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