[HEADSUP] Atlas changed libraries

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Sep 22 21:42:05 UTC 2013


Susi Lehtola wrote:
> I might mention that OpenBLAS (successor to GotoBLAS) is in Fedora,
> which is often 2x faster than ATLAS. But, it's only available on ix86
> and x86_64. It does have runtime CPU detection, though for the 20-odd
> CPUs supported.

That's great, but if programs are now going to link against -lsatlas rather 
than -llapack, they will not work with OpenBLAS. :-(

        Kevin Kofler



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