Re: [ng-spice-devel] Rework 9


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From Manu Rouat <emmanuel.rouat@wanadoo.fr>
Date Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:08:24 -0500
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Paolo Nenzi wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Rework 9 is out. It includes:
> 
> - Arno's patch that makes every device dynamically loadable. Another step
>   int the "plug-in" direction.
> 
> - Dezai's patch for ptfuncs.c. I had not much time time to test the code,
>   so it is maked by an #ifdef EXPERIMENTAL_CODE. You have to #define it to
>   get Dezai's patch. I have asked Manu if he can add a new switch into the
>   autoconf interface.

OK done - I'll send a patch to you ASAP

>   spice. Should we do this ? Can we do this ? I have spent some time
>   in the netlib repository searching for algorithms and packages for
>   sparse matrix handling and came out with a huge state of confusion.
>   I am definitively a numeric-ignorant. Before spending time in other
>   parts of the code, I think we should address the matrix package
>   problem. Sparse seems still a good code (as written in numerical
>   repositories), but it can improved for new deeply pipelined
>   architecture.

Did you check on GSL? It had a quite large set of routines and structures
for matrix computations if I recall (to use it, we still must solve the GPL
problem! )

manu



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