Re: [boost] A possible GSOC 2011 proposal idea

Subject: Re: [boost] A possible GSOC 2011 proposal idea
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-21 13:09:30

On 21/03/2011 15:37, Thomas Klimpel wrote:
> Chad Seibert wrote:
>> Yes, it does. However, it seems inappropriate to write an LP library
>> for Boost that uses LAPACK to do the linear algebra stuff. If we wanted to
>> go down that road, we could just write a wrapper for an existing lp
>> library instead, like what OpenOpt does.
>
> There are projects like NT2 or eigen, which try to do better/different than BLAS/LAPACK and succeeded more or less.

NT2 depends on BLAS/LAPACK, it does not replace it.