On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:25 PM, BCS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reply to bearophile, > >> Bill Baxter Wrote: >> >>> I haven't done any benchmarks, though. :-) >>> >> I see. But using something because it's supposed to be faster without >> performing actual performance comparisons looks a little strange to me >> :-) >> > > BLAS may well be the most tested, optimized and benchmarked code in the > world. It is highly unlikely that anything will be faster on hardwhere > anyone is likely to run across. Given that the vast bulk of super computer > time is spent on matrix math, it should be fair to say that BLAS is probably > the most executed code on the planet.
Exactly. That's why I haven't spent too much time benchmarking it. It would be quite surprising if something I wrote in D outperformed the ATLAS SSE3 optimized BLAS implementation. (Though It would not be so surprising if something Don wrote managed to outperform it. :-) ) --bb
