This is really old school, but a lot of times we have users sending us
copy pasting of codes, and that is the only way to know the version of
the code.
This is mostly a long term maintenance improvement.
Many coding styles require elimination of trailing whitespace, and
many editors and source code management configurations automatically
gobble up whitespace. When these tools gobble up whitespace, it
complicates reviewing the meaningful code changes.
By removing whitespace on one patch, it makes future
code reviews much easier.
=SCRIPT====================================================================
if which tempfile &>/dev/null; then
TEMPMAKER=tempfile
elif which mktemp &>/dev/null; then
TEMPMAKER=mktemp
else
echo "Cannot find tempfile program." 2>&1
exit 1
fi
MYTEMP=$($TEMPMAKER)
trap 'rm -f $MYTEMP' SIGINT SIGTERM
stripit() {
echo "stripping $1"
sed 's/[ \t]*$//' "$1" > $MYTEMP
cp $MYTEMP "$1"
}
if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
stripit $1
shift
done
else
while read -t 2; do
stripit $REPLY
done
fi
rm $MYTEMP
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Use \par instead of \details for section.
add a Contributors Section and a Reference Section.
Remove (some) verbatim section when not needed.
Those changes have been done by hand so I am not sure I manage to catch them all.
Email from rencang:
"I have to clarify that the code does not do strict bisection. It uses bisection as the fall back when the computed approximation somehow gets out of the interval that the approximation should be in. Then one step of bisection is taken and then it goes back to the usual Newton-like method again (because that's faster). The interval is updated every step and thus shrinking. Xlasd4 was handled similarly.
Setting MAXIT=20 was too aggressive by my side as we know now. MAXIT=64 may be too conservative. Perhaps we should set MAXIT=40. If that breaks in the future, I'd really like to revisit the code. But if we'd like to play it safe, your suggested 64 would be the best bet."
Mark Gates