Re: Test release for GSL 2.8

[Patrick Alken]

Hello, your suggestions for sparse matrices are good ones. I added a 
ticket to the bug tracker to track these - I will work on them when I 
have time

On 5/10/24 20:51, Brijesh Upadhaya wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> All tests passed for gsl-2.7.1+ in Debian 12 with GCC-12.2.0 and glibc-2.36.
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> Maybe you should update the author names in the source codes inside gsl/linalg. 
> It seems that you have added/updated a few routines.
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> I don't know if this is necessary, but the scaling of a complex (sparse) matrix 
> with a real vector, complex sparse matrix-vector multiplication, and 
> unpacking(in place) a complex vector could be added. I had to somehow do the 
> above-mentioned stuff while solving a time-harmonic FE problem.
>
> There are alloc and calloc for the blocks and vectors. Is there any particular 
> reason for not having anything to resize a block or a vector?
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> In gsl/spmatrix/getset_source.c, _set() replaces the matrix elements, could it 
> be possible to assemble the matrix as
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> *(BASE*) ptr = *(BASE*) + x;
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> and copy the entire code to a new name.
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>
> Regards,
> Brijesh
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> > On 11. May 2024, at 1.18, Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Patrick,
> >
> > Thank you very much for sharing the good news about the new GSL release.
> >
> > I just configured, built and checked the tarball on an Arch GNU/Linux with GCC 
> > 14.1.1 and Glibc 2.39 (on 12 threads to speed it up):
> >
> > ./configure && make -j12 && make check -j12
> >
> > There were no warnings or errors in the compilation or in the checks! 
> > Everything went smoothly all the way until the end :-).
> >
> > Thanks for all the work on this wonderful package; GSL is a mandatory 
> > dependency of GNU Astronomy Utilities; and we rely heavily on it. I look 
> > forward to the release of GSL 2.8.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mohammad