blas-0.6: NEWS

Changes in 0.6:

* Massive overhaul of the types.  It is now possible to do mutable operations
  in the ST monad.  Access control is done via type classes now instead of
  phantom types.
  
* No more orphan instances.

* Change some function names.  You should never have to "import qualified"
  anything now.
  
* Put row/col operations in the Matrix type classes.  Generic matrix types
  now provide access to rows and columns.
  

Changes in 0.5:

* Add Banded matrix data type, as well as Tri Banded and Herm Banded.

* Add support for trapezoidal dense matrices (Tri Matrix (m,n) e, where
  m is not the same as n).  Note that trapezoidal banded matrices are
  *NOT* supported.

* Add Diag matrix data type for diagonal matrices.

* Add Perm matrix data type, for permutation matrices.

* Enhance the RMatrix and RSolve type classes with an API that allows 
  specifying where to store the result of a computation.
  
* Enhance the IMatrix, RMatrix, ISolve, and RSolve type classes to add
  "scale and multiply" operations.
  
* Remove the scale parameter for Tri and Herm matrix data types.

* Flatten the data types for DVector and DMatrix.

* Some inlining and unpacking performance improvements.