ATLAS threaded 64 bit (Opteron) - need *.so?

Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:

Have you tried configuring R with Goto's BLAS
                http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kgoto/

I haven't worked with Opteron or Athlon64 computers but I understand
that Goto's BLAS are very effective on those machines.  Furthermore
Goto's BLAS are (only) available as .so libraries so you don't need to
mess with creating the .so version.

I tried it, yes. Somewhat to my surprise, it seemed to be not quite as
fast as the threaded ATLAS, but I wasn't very systematic about the
benchmarking.

(and the Goto items have license issues, which get in the way for
binary distributions.)