Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote > > b) having BLAS as a defined interface is wonderful for swapping default > (unaccelerated) BLAS for accelerated BLAS like Atlas, Goto, > OpenBLAS, > MKL, ... Several of these BLAS have in fact been available for > either > Debian or Ubuntu in some form (sometimes involving a helper script > as > eg Goto could never be part of an FLOSS distro). >
Just an aside: Goto BLAS is now available under the BSD license, so it should be perfectly acceptable to include in a FLOSS distribution. However, development has ceased so Goto will probably loose it's edge as new CPU families are shipped. -Charlie ----- Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Non-default-build-options-tp4328512p4329615.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
