There are a bunch of “sparse BLAS” operations in csr_matrix.h, like sparse matrix-vector multiply and sparse triangular solve. Why are they only implemented for CSR format sparse matrices?
Those are very basic implementations only and not at all optimized. Use OSKI if you need optimized sparse matrix operations like sparse matrix-vector multiplication and sparse triangular solve. It’s not the goal of the Sparse Matrix Converter to support a full set of sparse matrix operations. I’ve implemented them in CSR format for my personal convenience only.