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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:01:02 +0200
From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Tester for openblas needed
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On 10/21/2014 2:39 PM, Tony Kelman wrote:

>> So how many THREADS would you like to see ?
>
> I think 8 would cover the majority of users, 16 at the most. I've seen
> cases where openblas can try to use threads on small problems where it
> shouldn't need to, so it would be good to check whether it's smart about
> avoiding oversubscription if you run it without setting
> OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS.

I will prepare another package

> Of course users who really want more threads can compile it themselves,
> but it'll be convenient to have a fast blas easily hooked into Cygwin's
> packages for numpy, R, octave, etc.

R uses it own blas+lapack so no improvement on that side.

> -Tony

Regards
Marco


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