[R-SIG-Mac]R, blas, lapack, ATLAS, and OS X

[Jan de Leeuw]

http:www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/R/atlas

has binaries for an atlas version.


On Tuesday, July 31, 2001, at 07:19 PM, Don MacQueen wrote:

> 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>,
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> <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
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> Don MacQueen
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> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> Livermore, CA, USA
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