Thanks for the reply. Rob
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > On 13/10/2012 08:09, Rob Anderson wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if it is safe to call R functions and/or R BLAS functions >> from within multithreaded C/C++ code(.Call interface)? It is not in case >> with MATLAB. I was experimenting using pthreads and OpenMP. >> > > Not unless it is documented to be so. (I believe the internal BLAS to be > fine, but you could use an external one: although with care if that also > uses threads.) > > See also ยง8.1.5 of 'Writing R Extensions'. > > Thanks, >> Rob >> > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~**ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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