Hi, Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
OK, so I guess we will have to go to this way. Upload whenever you want,
this shouldn't break anything, at least I hope so.
Marc
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