On 10/6/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes it is and LinBox defaults to use it on OSX unless it is given > another BLAS (which we do). I added support for the AccFW for LinBox > on OSX (it made it upstream) and had planned to add it to all the > other packages in Sage that would benefit from it, but never went > beyond LinBox in verifying which ones already do so per default and > which ones need it added.
I'm fairly certain that the AccFW isn't used for at least some of the packages. I think I've seen GSL building its own BLAS. > > Overall the AccFW seems fairly competitive, but I still want to run > some benchmarks how it compares to the current release of ATLAS > because things have been moving quite rapidly for ATLAS on the Core > Duo support - it used to be that the 32 bit was faster than the 64 bit > build, but that has been fixed and performance of ATLAS on Corep Duos > improved by at least 80% in the last 3 months or so. I don't know if > Apple has updated the AccFW in that timeframe. Benchmarks would be good. I don't think the framework has been updated in a while. I suspect it will get updated when Leopard comes out. Cheers, Tim. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
