Re: [Axiom-developer] NAG libraries

[Mike Dewar]

Hi Martin,

I think you have the code but - as somebody already pointed out - I
wouldn't advise resurrecting it.  Back when it was written we were
thinking along the lines of what are now called service oriented
architectures or web services.  With modern machines the extra overhead
of generating code, compiling it, and sending data down a socket just
isn't worth it.  A lot of Axiom's design decisions were made 15 or 25
years ago and don't make sense in the modern world.  I think that this
one falls into that category.

I would advise going down the dynamic linking route.  We did it for some
NAG routines in the old Windows version of Axiom and more recently we've
done it for Maple and MATLAB.  The performance is much better and from a
user's view its much more flexible and natural.

Kind regards,
        Mike.


On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:26:05AM +0200, Martin Rubey wrote:
> Dear Mike,
> 
> at my faculty (University of Vienna, Faculty for Mathematics), there is some
> interest in using the NAG libraries from within axiom.  Unfortunately, I'm an
> absolute looser concerning Fortran and I haven't used the libraries myself at
> all and will probably not use them in future either.  However, I'd love to set
> things up, so that NAGlink works again.  I guess that this may also be 
> fruitful
> for NAG, if you look at the ongoing debate which software to buy and where to
> save a little money.
> 
> Thus, do you think you could give me some help there?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Martin
> 
> Martin Rubey <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Stephen Wilson <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Though not dead strictly speaking, Im looking at removing the nag fortran
> > > library support, which appears quite straight forward to do.
> > 
> > PLEASE do the opposite!  My faculty has the libraries, and I would love to 
> > be
> > able to use them, just, I do not know how.  is nagman available?
> > 
> > It does not make sense to drop support for such a great product, even if
> > commercial and available only to few. 
> > 
> > Thus, if anybody knows, PLEASE show me how to activate the NAG link!
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > 
> > 
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