[Matrix-SIG] Nonlinear optimization routines anyone?
Phil Austin
phil@geog.ubc.ca
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:03:36 -0800
>
> I've never found a routine to package, and I've looked a fair bit. There's
> COOOL (http://timna.mines.edu/cwpcodes/coool/) which looked interesting,
> but it seemed extremely non-portable (couldn't get it to compile on Win32,
> requires expect, etc. etc.).
>
> --david
and it's also been frozen at version 0.1 for the last 3 years or so.
Another possibility is MTL, which has support for iterative solvers
and has a new version announced this weekend. It would be
straightforward to pass MTL arrays to Python using
Paul's CXX_Array.h.
http://www.lsc.nd.edu/research/mtl/doc/index.html#itl
Regards, Phil