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Re: [IMP-dev] newton method



I don't think the gsl Newton optimizer has been used for any real work. It is just there because adding it was almost free. 



On Oct 27, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Yannick Spill <> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I was about to write a Newton optimizer (that uses the Hessian) and I 
> came across the quasi-newton optimizer in the IMP gsl module. It says 
> it's not well tested. Has anyone been using it lately? How is it? Should 
> I code a true Newton optimizer?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Yannick
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