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LAPACK with more pure procedures

A developer forked the fortran-lapack repository to make more procedures pure, enabling more of their R package translations to be designated pure. The purity analysis and refactoring were performed by GPT-5.6 Sol.

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LAPACK with more pure procedures
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I forked fortran-lapack of @FedericoPerini to make more procedures pure, listed here, so that more of the procedures in my translations of R packages could be designated pure. The purity analysis and refactoring was done by GPT-5.6 Sol.

source & further reading
fortran-lang.discourse.group — original article Scientists are using artificial intelligence and large language models to rewrite old code in modern languages Benchmarking nested do loops, MATMUL and Blas DGEMM Ported a C code to Fortran, etiquette around it?
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