find_root with bfloats



On 9/28/10 5:30 PM, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
> Speaking of bf_find_root, etc, what do people think of the Gnu
> Scientific Library (GSL) and its Common Lisp Interface
> 
> http://common-lisp.net/project/gsll/
> 
> as a means for interfacing to maxima?

You mean having maxima use gsl to implement special functions?

This (and related) issues has come up before.  The main blocking point
is that it doesn't work with all of the Lisps we currently support and
gcl in particular since that is still the primary lisp for distribution.
 (I think; I don't build distribution binaries.)

Ray