A message today on r-help asked about compiling R with ATLAS libraries.
--- related to that ---
A message today on Apple's scitech mailing list reports that using
ATLAS resulted in an 8x speed improvement in a small fortran program
(compiled using f2c) that relies heavily on blas routines, in OS X.
Rather than quote without permission, here's a pointer to the scitech
list archives, for anyone who is interested. The subject was
"optimized blas & lapack routines".
List-Archive: <http://www.lists.apple.com/archives/scitech/>
List-Subscribe: <http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/scitech>,
<mailto:scitech-request@lists.apple.com?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: Topics regarding Apple's support for science & technology
<scitech.lists.apple.com>
(apologies for redundancy if the R binaries ( either version) for OS
X already have the ATLAS libraries--I don't recall seeing it
mentioned)
-Don
-------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA --------------------------------------