Re: [Rd] BLAS benchmarks on R 2.12.0 and related performance issues

2010-11-02 Thread Stefan Evert
On 2 Nov 2010, at 19:33, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > Ultimately we need good performance benchmarks. They are difficult to set up > properly and > tedious to run. Maybe a good subject for a Google Summer of Code project for > next year or > some undergraduate projects. Seconded and thirded! St

Re: [Rd] BLAS benchmarks on R 2.12.0 and related performance issues

2010-11-02 Thread Prof. John C Nash
This thread pointed out that the "plain vanilla" library for linear algebra outperformed the fancy ones for the original poster -- and he had mentioned this, but still got "you ought to " advice that was inappropriate and ignored his stated experience. I've been surprised sometimes myself wi