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1 0 : // Distributed under the MIT License. 2 : // See LICENSE.txt for details. 3 : 4 : #pragma once 5 : 6 : #error "RootFinding/NewtonRaphson.hpp does not provide any functionality." 7 : 8 : namespace RootFinder { 9 : /*! 10 : * \ingroup NumericalAlgorithmsGroup 11 : * For the nonlinear solver, see NonlinearSolver::newton_raphson. We 12 : * do not provide a Newton-Raphson root finder. The Boost 13 : * implementation is buggy and can return the wrong answer, and it is 14 : * not clear that performance would be better than RootFinder::toms748 15 : * in practice. 16 : * 17 : * Newton-Raphson is asymptotically faster than TOMS748 in the ideal 18 : * case, but that assumes that function evaluations take the same 19 : * amount of time for both solvers, while in reality the derivatives 20 : * are often as or even more expensive than the values. Additionally, 21 : * for realistic problems, convergence is usually fast enough that 22 : * neither solver reaches the asymptotic regime. Newton-Raphson also 23 : * has the advantage of requiring less work internally in the solver 24 : * implementation, but, again, for realistic problems solver overhead 25 : * is usually dwarfed by the function evaluations. 26 : */ 27 1 : void newton_raphson() = delete; 28 : } // namespace RootFinder