Re: [Help-gsl] sparse matrices (again)

[Brian Gough]

At Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:30:25 +0400,
Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> I am wondering if it is planned to eventually provide GSL with general
> sparse matrix routines (e.g. like those ones which are included in NAG,
> ESSL, or Harwell Library)?

Thanks for your email.  

So far we haven't added sparse matrices because it seemed like
this would require several sparse matrix representations to be
implemented in order to be useful, each with their own functions.

Due to the potentially large amount of work involved, it seemed
like this was best left to specialised sparse matrix packages.
As I understand it the number of sparse functions in the NAG
library is pretty big.

If you have any suggestions in this area I'd be glad to hear
them.

-- 
Brian Gough