Re: Who uses clapack?

From: kia (kia_at_sparrow.com)
Date: 12/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 06:29:14 GMT

Victor Eijkhout wrote:
>
> The authors of lapack/scalapack are starting to work on a new release of
> these packages. One of the things we want to address is the sillyness
> that C users, instead of linking to the binaries of the Fortran version,
> use an automatically translated C version.

Your concerns seem oddly out of step, now that clc's own gatekeeper
declared them *off topic*. I agree, they should concentrate on doing
what C is good for -- numerical computing is not one of them.
Consequently, don't dilute your efforts to accommodate technically
illiterate crowd that could neither appreciate nor effectively use what
you have to offer.

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