[Rcpp-devel] Significant difference in performance when computing Ax
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd at debian.org
Sun Apr 27 21:01:33 CEST 2014
On 27 April 2014 at 14:34, Avraham Adler wrote:
| I feel foolish now. I forgot to note that I build R using a Win64
| version of OpenBLAS (see
| <http://www.avrahamadler.com/2014/04/20/r-3-1-0-openblas-speed-comparisons/>
| for more). I'm certain that the speed in tcrossprod is coming from an
| optimized compile of R and BLAS. My apologies for any confusion.
That is a _feature_ and not a bug. See eg this r-devel tread from 2005:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/2370/
Oh the good old days when Doug Bates still posted on r-devel ...
Dirk
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