From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E6s9V-0002JH-Ry for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:54:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7LFqh2Y026897; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:52:43 GMT Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite1.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7LFqgW0029185 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:52:43 GMT Received: from leibniz.ether (user-10mt4mi.cable.mindspring.com [65.110.146.210]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7LFrCdZ007165 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:53:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Darren Dale To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] lapack transition Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:53:08 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200508211343.48047.pbienst@gentoo.org> <200508211131.16660.dd55@cornell.edu> <200508211741.24955.pbienst@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200508211741.24955.pbienst@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508211153.08797.dd55@cornell.edu> X-Archives-Salt: 17a636e3-c1bb-4099-91ad-303e05b4a5b4 X-Archives-Hash: 719992a86cff66a50a37552f451cab65 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 -- gentoo-science@gentoo.org mailing list