Re: FYI: optimizing certain matrix arithmetic

[Shai Ayal]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Michael D Godfrey
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09/24/2009 10:16 PM, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>>
>> If you compiled Octave yourself, you can hardly call that a "standard
>> distribution".
>>
>
> Sorry I was not exactly precise.  This will be a standard
> distribution to due course.
>>
>> Is there no ATLAS package for Fedora?
>>
>>
>
> Yes, there is atlas and atlas-devel, and some other things
> with atlas in their name.  Does Octave use these?

ATLAS is an attempt to empirically optimize BLAS, and acts in as a
replacement for the BLAS routines. As such it will provide better
performance. AFIK matlab uses ATLAS.
More info at : http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/

Shai