I thought Altivec was a ppc-only optimization. I'm pretty sure this
does not apply to Intel systems, but maybe I'm wrong.
John
On Nov 24, 2008, at 10:23 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
It depends on the computations you want to do.
R for Mac OS X uses Altivec which is a multithreaded
On Nov 25, 2008, at 11:28 , John C. Tull wrote:
I thought Altivec was a ppc-only optimization. I'm pretty sure this
does not apply to Intel systems, but maybe I'm wrong.
The Altivec part was incorrect but the multithreaded BLAS part was
correct. Replace Altivec with your favorite
Dear R-mac Users:
I'm wanting to leverage an 8-core Intel Mac Pro for all of its
computational glory. Looking over the mail list, it appears that the
conversation on 64-bit builds of R has been about gaining access to
memory beyond the 32-bit limit of 3.5 GB and not about multiple
