Le vendredi 19 décembre 2014 à 10:08 -0800, Douglas Bates a écrit :
> Perhaps the R version of the microbenchmarks could be run on
> Revolution R Open, http://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/download/. The
> major difference between RRO and other versions is that RRO
> incorporates MKL.  For one or two of the benchmarks this could make a
> difference.
This could be interesting to take as a separate implementation from R,
but not to replace R IMO. The official R download uses a the reference
BLAS, this is what most users get and this choice is fully assumed
(recently on the R list a developer stated that most R users wouldn't
benefit from using a more efficient version than the reference BLAS).
Using a tuned version wouldn't be representative of the default
experience, and it would be misleading because MKL isn't free but people
may expect that R is.


Regards

> By the way, I was also going to suggest applying the byte compiler to
> the functions being timed but I see that this has already been done.
> 
> 

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