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Greg Lindahl greg.lindahl at qlogic.com
Fri Dec 29 17:12:18 PST 2006


On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 04:54:30AM -0600, Geoff Jacobs wrote:

> It most definitely isn't. Goto trounces it easily. ATLAS is the first
> stab at an optimized BLAS library before the hand coders go to work.

Actually, on most platforms ATLAS uses hand-written routines for the
most common cases. It's just that Goto is better at hand-writing for
the matrix sizes that people use for HPL.

-- greg



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