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Wasn't there a very similar library earlier than 1992? I seem to recall Linpack back in the early 1980s that sounded very similar.
by AnimalMuppet 9mo ago
Wasn't there a very similar library earlier than 1992? I seem to recall Linpack back in the early 1980s that sounded very similar.
- buescher 9mo agoYes. Lapack was the successor to linpack and I seem to recall some of the linpack routines going back much further than the eighties. MATLAB (which existed before the commercial release in 1984) was built on linpack.
- fph 9mo agoThat is correct, I did not mention Linpack. It had different function names than Lapack though (while the naming scheme was similar, and still constrained to 6 letters); for instance DGETRF was named DGEFA in Linpack. [1] [1]: https://netlib.org/linpack/dgefa.f https://netlib.org/linpack/dgefa.f