Prof Brian Ripley wrote: <snipped> >> Now, the interesting questions are: (1) is Atlas multi-threaded on >> *every* platform, or more specifically, on Windows?, > > > By default it is not multi-threaded on any platform, and we have not > succeeded in compiling a multi-threaded version on Windows except by > using Cygwin extensions (i.e. not actually on Windows).
Thanks for the explanations. As I said, my main interests in running R under Wine is mostly about having a GUI, but the multi-threading possibility is an interesting discussion; also re-compiling the whole lot (either for win32 or linux) just for the *possibility* of speeding up is a bit painful, so having drop-in dll replacement (or a shared-library replacement) for trying-out sounds rather attractive. >> (2) Can wine use the atlas dll under x86 linux? > > `the atlas dll' being? The ATLAS-based Rblas.dlls on CRAN are not > multithreaded. Who knows what wine can do? Thanks for stating that. It wasn't clear that the Atlas-based Rblas is not multi-threaded. > Please be more reasonable in your support requests. Yours is a rather > unusual use, and we don't have time to support it. Thanks for the detailed explanations about threading implementations. that's what I was after. Most of what I said is throwing ideas about, really. As for the issue with msvcp60.dll, I am really sorry about it - but since one of you had bothered enough to write an FAQ item for it, I cannot be the first one getting bitten? It would be a good deal more useful to separate that option from the other harmless ones in the Innosetup installer, and/or shouldn't be too much effort to say, put it last instead or somehow mark it out differently or even add a note at the same screen instead? e.g. "**The Far East support options requires that you have Far East support in Windows**" (there are win32 software which can do CJK without OS support; e.g. some version of Acrobat reader is known to run under Wine, and I would expect it doesn't need extra windows bits to view CJK pdf's)...the misleading part was that the other additional options are absolutely harmless. Thanks a lot for the discussion. If I find any interesting R issues under Wine, I'll report back. Hin-Tak Leung ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
