Chris Colbert wrote: > forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't installing atlas from the > repositories defeat the purpose of installing atlas at all, since the > build process optimizes it to your own cpu timings?
Yes and no. Yes, it will be slower than a cutom-build atlas, but it will be reasonably faster than blas/lapack. Please also keep in mind that this mostly matters for linear algebra and big matrices. Thinking from another POV: how many 1000x1000 matrices could have you inverted while wasting your time on this already :) cheers, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion