On 29 October 2017 at 22:01, Kenny Bell wrote: | User here: incorporating Intel's MKL, as MRO does, would be a very welcome | addition. | | I was an MRO user before and it improved my experience with medium data | immensely. | | They did, however, leave behind bugs here and there, especially related to | development with Rcpp, so I switched back to vanilla R.
With all due respect: You may miss something. MKL has always worked with 'Base R'. As a point of reference and comparison, I set up a benchmarking and comparison package _well over half a decade ago_ and while it never get fully finished to the point of a submitted paper the vignette still stands---and demonstrates that _dropping in MKL is a one-line operation_. And always has been. There may have been some license arbitrage: Intel was an early investor in Revo, so MKL was pushed hard. With GotoBLAS and later OpenBLAS I cared less, but IIRC the license of MKL is a little simpler for "mere use" now. See https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/gcbd/vignettes/gcbd.pdf for more. Hth, Dirk | | On Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 9:42 AM Juan Telleria <jteller...@gmail.com> wrote: | | > Dear R Developers, | > | > First of all, I would like to thank you Jeroen Ooms for taking the binary | > Window Builds from Duncan. I firmly believe that the R Community will | > benefit a lot from his work. | > | > However, the debate I would like to open is about if some of Microsoft R | > Open Code shall be ported from R Open to Mainstream R. | > | > There are some beneficts in R Open such as multithreaded performance: | > https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/multithread/ | > | > Maybe, the R Consortium, and in particular, Microsoft R Team, could | > collaborate, if appropriate, in such duty. | > | > Thank you, | > Juan Telleria | > | > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] | > | > ______________________________________________ | > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list | > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel | > | | [[alternative HTML version deleted]] | | ______________________________________________ | R-devel@r-project.org mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
