JuliaLang/julia — pull request #4985 by andreasnoackjensen (2013-11-30 11:39:18+00:00)
Title: RFC:Add sparse triangular solver

In consequence of #4968, I have translated a the NIST Sparse BLAS triangular csc solver to Julia. It gives significant speedup for triangular matrices
```julia
julia> @time lufact(L)\x;
elapsed time: 0.042756984 seconds (2572736 bytes allocated)

julia> @time L\x;
elapsed time: 0.001524477 seconds (524640 bytes allocated)
```
Complex conjugation is not yet handled as the source was written for doubles, but it shouldn't be hard to add (and I plan to do so).