Juergen Rose wrote: > What are the differences between blas-reference, blas-atlas and > blas-goto.
They are different. The reference BLAS is (relatively) slow; the other ones are fast. If you’re happy with the performance of the reference BLAS, or don’t use much matrix algebra-dependent code, there is no reason to switch, though. > And what will happen with the other blas depended packages > as > > apbs, gromacs, grass, arpack, ccp4-libs and umfpack, > > if I switch to blas-goto? Do you have some insight? See the R Installation and Administration manual http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#BLAS and especially http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Shared-BLAS -- Karl Ove Hufthammer ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.