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New Functions</A>
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In a package like SLALIB it is difficult to know how far to go. Is it
enough to provide the primitive operations, or should more
complicated functions be packaged? Is it worth encroaching on
specialist areas, where individual experts have all written their
own software already? To what extent should CPU efficiency be
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In practice, almost all the routines in SLALIB are there because they were
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