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From: Darren Dale <dd55@cornell.edu>
To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] lapack transition
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:53:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508211153.08797.dd55@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508211741.24955.pbienst@gentoo.org>

On Sunday 21 August 2005 11:41 am, Peter Bienstman wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 17:31, Darren Dale wrote:
> > If you install lapack-atlas and blas-atlas, and link scipy to the blas
> > and lapack libraries but not the atlas libraries, do you still get the
> > enhanced performance from atlas? (This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm
> > still learning.)
>
> Yes, that's the whole idea. The names 'lapack' and 'blas' are just symlinks
> to whatever library implements them, like the reference libraries, or
> ATLAS, or perhaps at a later stage MKL.

I think that clarifies things, but I wonder why Numeric and SciPy suggest 
including atlas in the library list if it isnt necessary.

Darren
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-21 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-21 11:43 [gentoo-science] lapack transition Peter Bienstman
2005-08-21 13:22 ` Darren Dale
2005-08-21 14:25   ` Peter Bienstman
2005-08-21 14:33     ` Darren Dale
2005-08-21 14:56       ` Peter Bienstman
2005-08-21 15:31         ` Darren Dale
2005-08-21 15:41           ` Peter Bienstman
2005-08-21 15:53             ` Darren Dale [this message]
2005-08-21 17:32               ` Peter Bienstman
2005-08-21 15:33 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2005-08-21 15:51   ` Peter Bienstman
2005-08-21 16:00     ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2005-08-21 17:28       ` Peter Bienstman
2005-08-21 20:29   ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-08-21 23:21     ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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