[Rd] Matrix multiplication in a C code
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sun Apr 6 14:53:14 CEST 2008
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Mathieu Ribatet wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> I've got a small question on matrix multiplications in a C code. Because
> of a really cpu demanding likelihood, I had to use a C code within an R
> function wrapper. I'm pretty sure that there is already one good code
> for matrix multiplication in C - maybe in the R source code itself - but
> I wasn't able to find it.
>
> Anyone as an idea on how to handle matrix multiplications?
Well, R does use fast C code where available: see matmult in
src/main/array.c which calls the BLAS. It works best if you have an
optimized BLAS: otherwise it may not be as fast as the simple version used
when there are NAs present.
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