On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:45 AM, David Cournapeau <david@silveregg.co.jp> wrote:

Charles R Harris wrote:
>
> Maybe the way to
> go is use a keyword to choose between methods.

'safe' vs 'fast' ? :)

I wonder whether it would be ok to change the default to QR, though. I
will look at the pivoted QR thing,

That sounds OK. The documentation should probably mention that the orthogonal columns produced by the two methods will be different, otherwise we will probably get some bug reports.

Chuck