On 05/12/2006, at 2:43 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: >> 1. The CRAN binary contains a library libBlasVeclib.dylib. >> Following the build method in 'The MacOS X R FAQ' this library is >> not built. What is the library for and would it be worth building? >> > > R can be configured to use various BLAS implementations. One of > changes in 2.4.0 is that this can be done by switching > libRblas.dylib (e.g. via softlink). The CRAN binary comes with two > BLAS implementations - one using vecLib (libRblas.vecLib.dylib) and > the internal R one (libRblas.0.dylib). They have been produced in > two separate builds. This is equivalent to configuring R with -- > with-blas='-framework vecLib' and --without-blas respectively. The > libRblas.dylib is a symlink which can be changed depending on which > implementation you want to use.
Do you have any numbers about which is currently the better performer on the various MacOS paltforms? Cheers Bill _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
