From: Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>
Subject: Re: Binding to the GNU Scientific Library
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:11:11 -0500
Date: 2006-11-03T10:11:11-05:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <1162559389.689389.125610@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com wrote:
> Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> ...
>
>>And the topic impinges on the question of Ada for scientific programming
>>that was discussed here a few months back. Lack of efficient library
>>access is a major barrier to use in this application class.
>
>
> It seems to me that instead of having a binding to the library it would
> be better to translate the library into Ada and make it a generic
> package for floating point types. That would provide more flexibility,
> and would probably be more efficient that having to translate back and
> forth between Ada and C floating point numbers.
>
> --- Brian
>
While it might be nice no have a generic Ada library like this (or even
a C/C++ one with a license that would be useable by people not
developing free software - GSL does not fall into that category) it does
not currently exist so a binding is not a bad thing.
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2006-11-01 8:24 Binding to the GNU Scientific Library Jerry
2006-11-01 15:01 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-11-03 13:09 ` brian.b.mcguinness
2006-11-03 15:11 ` Jeffrey Creem [this message]
2006-11-03 15:37 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
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