[Gretl-devel] CVS news, part 1

There's quite a lot going on in gretl CVS right now. Some of the new things will require more time to document, here I'll just mention a few quick things. * The 64-bit Windows build now includes the heavily optimized OpenBLAS library instead of the Netlib "reference" BLAS and Lapack. There should be a substantial speed-up on some big matrix operations. * There's a new function package on the server, matrix_perf, which runs some tests of matrix multiplication performance. It would be interesting to hear what results people get from this -- to see if there are any surprises. The package requires current CVS or snapshot. * The matrix_perf package illustrates a new command, "flush" (it's documented). Run the package and you'll see what I mean. I recommend taking a look at "flush" if you're author of a function package (some of) whose functions take a relatively long time to complete; see if it might work for you. * Our "CVS" importer can now handle UTF-16 (and in principle UTF-32) files, as produced by MS apps: we use GLib to recode such material to UTF-8. * Windows displaying bundles, or displaying output from a function that outputs a bundle in the background, now have what I hope people will agree is a nicer interface. Allin