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Possibly useful idea

2 messages · John C Nash, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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John C Nash
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I've not worked changing underlying computational infrastructure, but
developers who do might want to use ideas from FlexiBLAS. Apologies in
advance if this is well-known.

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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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John,
On 11 January 2016 at 07:44, ProfJCNash wrote:
| I've not worked changing underlying computational infrastructure, but
| developers who do might want to use ideas from FlexiBLAS. Apologies in
| advance if this is well-known.

You have been able to do that at the OS level, given a suitable OS variant
like Debian, since the 1990s. My timing comparison package/vignette gcbd does
just that (adjusting before calling R).

I see nothing really new here. It's just dispatching. Sure, if your OS allows
it you can roll it up into the OS. But not all OSs will so appeal to R is
limited.

Dirk