Re: Octave and GSL interface

[Tim Keitt]

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Thomas Walter wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> Is anybody out there interested in acessing some functions from GSL
> too?

Definitely, yes.

T.
 
> I have encoded and tested an interface to the random number generator
> part of GSL.  This part of GSL seems to be stable.  The use of the GSL
> default RNG -- it has a period ~2^19937 -- is much faster than the RNG
> used in the fortran library with period ~2^31.
> 
> example using octave-2.0.14 as is:
> tic;r=rand(100000,1);toc      ==>     ans = 0.84215
> 
> examples using octave-2.0.14 as is and GSL
> tic;r=rng_rand(100000,1);toc  ==>     ans = 0.16287
> 
> Hints, help and suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Nice weekend
> Thomas
> 
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