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