[Rd] MKL Acceleration encouraging; need adjust package builds?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

We said it before, but it bears repeating: BLAS is an interface.

So unless you use on a static library build, these library can be switch
after compilation and at essentially any point in time.  My (unfinished)
package gcbd shows how in its simple and vignette by comparing a number of
BLAS implementations.  See the (now dated) chart on page 9 of
  https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/gcbd/vignettes/gcbd.pdf
or this (old) blog post
  http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2010/10/03/

While the charts could do with an update, they do show how eg reference blas
is clearly outperformed by Atlas or GotoBLAS (the predecessor to OpebBLAS).

Hope this helps,  Dirk

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