Re: [Help-gsl] is gsl_integration_workspace reusable?

[Denes Molnar]

I think that is fine, I would add something like "A workspace may be 
reused for subsequent numerical integrations (all necessary 
reinitialization is performed automatically by the integration routines)."

Denes

Email from Rhys Ulerich on Dec 1, 2011 at 10:12pm:

> Hi Denes,
>
> > The whole issue arose because a collaborator could not independently
> > reproduce some of my results.
>
> +1 for having collaborators who independently reproduce results.
>
> > Anyway, explicit confirmation that the workspace is reusable was very
> > useful. Not to mention that it is cleared by the gsl routines upon each
> > call. It would probably be helpful to include this information in the
> > manual (or have we missed it?).
>
> I think the re-usability of workspaces is implied by the manual but I
> do not see where it is explicitly stated.
>
> Do you think adding "A workspace may be used to perform multiple
> numerical integrations." to the end of gsl_integration_workspace's
> documentation at
> http://www.gnu.org/s/gsl/manual/html_node/QAG-adaptive-integration.html
> would be sufficiently clear?  Can you think of better wording?  Maybe
> "multiple sequential numerical integrations"?
>
> - Rhys