On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 13:56 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > n=3 is just an example, but I think you will find dimension three to > be quite popular among the people who live there. > > For every researcher working directly with BLAS, there are a thousand > users of software like Mathematica, MATLAB, Magma, Maple, Octave, > SageMath, SciPy, etc. Typically these will hand off your computation > regardless of size. Likewise for graphics and signal processing > applications. On a distro where BLAS gets pulled in as a dependency, I > think this generic use case has to be considered the main one.
I don't think the number of users alone is a key issue here. The real question is, do these users actually perform a humongous number of small-dimension computations where such an overhead will actually matter? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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