Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried configuring R with Goto's BLAS > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kgoto/ > > I haven't worked with Opteron or Athlon64 computers but I understand > that Goto's BLAS are very effective on those machines. Furthermore > Goto's BLAS are (only) available as .so libraries so you don't need to > mess with creating the .so version.
I tried it, yes. Somewhat to my surprise, it seemed to be not quite as fast as the threaded ATLAS, but I wasn't very systematic about the benchmarking. (and the Goto items have license issues, which get in the way for binary distributions.) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
