Different users with different needs.
The traditional library users, who make 500 requests/day
to netlib and keep NAG and IMSL in business, have the following priorities:
- Easy interface with hidden details
- Reliability; the code should fail as rarely as possible
- Speed
The HPCC community, on the other hand, which wants to solve the largest,
hardest problems as quickly as possible, seems to want
- Speed
- Access to internal details to tune data structures to the application
- Algorithms which are fast for the particular application even if
not reliable as general methods
Differing priorities
Differing approaches to algorithms and software
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