RFC: Changing the debian system default BLAS/LAPACK implementation

2020-06-09 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Science team, It's needless to introduce the importance of BLAS/LAPACK to you. Let me directly put forward the question: Are we satisfied with the performance of default BLAS/LAPACK provider? (which is exactly netlib, without optimization) Should we change the system default? I can thi

Re: RFC: Changing the debian system default BLAS/LAPACK implementation

2020-06-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Mo, Generally in favour as I usually opt for faster OpenBLAS as defaults as well. But allow me to mention one cautionary tale that is very current. Besides the Debian work, I am also upstream for a few R packages. One or two have reasonably become popular and widely ysed, and I run what we cal