Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.)
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