On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 29 October 2017 at 22:01, Kenny Bell wrote: > | User here: incorporating Intel's MKL, as MRO does, would be a very welcome > | addition. > | > | I was an MRO user before and it improved my experience with medium data > | immensely. > | > | They did, however, leave behind bugs here and there, especially related to > | development with Rcpp, so I switched back to vanilla R. > > With all due respect: You may miss something. MKL has always worked with > 'Base R'. > > As a point of reference and comparison, I set up a benchmarking and > comparison package _well over half a decade ago_ and while it never get fully > finished to the point of a submitted paper the vignette still stands---and > demonstrates that _dropping in MKL is a one-line operation_. > > And always has been. There may have been some license arbitrage: Intel was > an early investor in Revo, so MKL was pushed hard. With GotoBLAS and later > OpenBLAS I cared less, but IIRC the license of MKL is a little simpler for > "mere use" now. > > See https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/gcbd/vignettes/gcbd.pdf for > more.
FWIW, I've been using openBlas for years now, based on this and other benchmarks. It provides performance comparable to MKL while being really free. Best, Ista > > Hth, Dirk > > | > | On Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 9:42 AM Juan Telleria <jteller...@gmail.com> wrote: > | > | > Dear R Developers, > | > > | > First of all, I would like to thank you Jeroen Ooms for taking the binary > | > Window Builds from Duncan. I firmly believe that the R Community will > | > benefit a lot from his work. > | > > | > However, the debate I would like to open is about if some of Microsoft R > | > Open Code shall be ported from R Open to Mainstream R. > | > > | > There are some beneficts in R Open such as multithreaded performance: > | > https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/multithread/ > | > > | > Maybe, the R Consortium, and in particular, Microsoft R Team, could > | > collaborate, if appropriate, in such duty. > | > > | > Thank you, > | > Juan Telleria > | > > | > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > | > > | > ______________________________________________ > | > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > | > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > | > > | > | [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > | > | ______________________________________________ > | R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel