Re: Sparse-merge

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Mar-2005, Richard Hindmarsh <address@hidden> wrote:

| A quick look at "eigs" in Matlab shows that "eigs.m" calls an interface 
| routine called "arpackc.dll" (or whatever suffix). It also looks as 
| though "eigs" would be largely useable in Octave. I guess that an Octave 
| "arpackc" would not be too difficult to write but what is then one 
| expected to do - rewrite "eigs" so that it doesn't look like the Matlab 
| one?

What we need for Octave is an independently developed eigs function,
not one based on Matlab code in any way.

If you are writing code for Octave, you should not refer to Matlab
source code.  That way, you can't end up with something that is
derived from the Matlab code.

jwe



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