Le samedi 20 mars 2010 à 20:21 +0100, Thomas Weber a écrit : > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 06:00:04PM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > Le samedi 20 mars 2010 à 13:49 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a écrit : > > > Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> writes: > > > > I am planning to upload some modifications in the way Linear Algebra > > > > Libraries BLAS / LAPACK and ATLAS are handle in Debian. These libraries > > > > are very used by many scientific software. [...] > > > Is it really common to switch > > > implementations on the same machine very often? > > Yes, it is. This kind of library are used by Scilab, R or Octave. They > > relies strongly on these libraries and for precision, confirmation of > > the result and performances, it is common to switch between the > > different implementation. > > As Octave maintainer, I can confirm that switching the libraries is a > routine[1]. Having a reference implementation and some highly tuned (but > occasionally buggy) implementation is extremely valuable. Thanks for the confirmation.
> Example in Debian: > http://bugs.debian.org/570231 > > [1] Actually, I'm pretty sad that ATLAS isn't allowed any more to ship a > configuration file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ . I am too. It is why I had to come up with the alternatives solution. Sylvestre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1269167496.16879.28.ca...@zlarin
