RE: [Numpy-discussion] BLAS

[Paul F D. <pa...@pf...>]

I had forgotten about this case. I think when these were done it was thought
that it would be better if the Numeric core did not require use of
LAPACK/BLAS. We were thinking back then of a core with other packages, and
the blas we use by default is probably the same speed so it didn't seem
important. I would have no problem with a patch to change this.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Jorgen Mortensen [mailto:je...@fy...] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:00 AM
> To: Paul F Dubois
> Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] BLAS
> 
> 
> On Torsdag den 20. februar 2003 17:49, Paul F Dubois wrote:
> 
> > > When doing matrix-matrix multiplications with large 
> matrices, using 
> > > the BLAS library (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) can speed up
> > > things a lot. I don't
> > > think Numeric takes advantage of this (is this correct?).
> >
> > No. You can configure it at installation to use the BLAS of choice.
> >
> 
> I know that the stuff in LinearAlgebra can be configured to 
> use a BLAS of 
> choice, but what about the Numeric.dot function?
> 
> Can I configure Numeric so that this:
> 
> >>> a = Numeric.dot(b, c)
> 
> will use BLAS?
> 
> Jens
> 
>