I think that’s an interesting idea. numpy will prefer BLAS libraries in this 
order if they’re all present:

MKL
BLIS
OpenBLAS
ATLAS
BLAS (NetLIB)
So I think it’s a vote for openblas over netlib blas.

Btw if openblas is added, wouldn’t lapack also have to be replaced as well? And 
not just blas?


> On Dec 18, 2021, at 6:59 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> 
> Would it make sense to replace blas with openblas?
> 
> -- 
> Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.
> 
>> On 17 December 2021 13:43:25 Rafael Sadowski <raf...@sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri Dec 17, 2021 at 01:03:30PM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Please find attached a port of the openblas.
>>> 
>>> Description:
>>> OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library
>>> based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.
>>> 
>>> It's loosely based on the one at openbsd-wip [1].
>>> I tested on i386, amd64, arm, arm64, and mips64.
>>> 
>>> I didn't test on others platforms due to lack of hardware.
>>> If somebody is interested, can you give it a try, check if it works for
>>> you and give some feedback?  Thanks.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/math/openblas
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Kevin
>> 
>> I like to see openblas, I really do. But I think it will be found by
>> many other ports when it is imported. Checkout "This port is required
>> by" from https://www.freshports.org/math/openblas/
>> 
>> That means a bit more work needs to happen here, doesn't it?
> 

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