gsl_multifit

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:12:19AM +0100, Brian Gough wrote:
> The only other optimization I have up my sleeve is to introduce more
> use of BLAS functions.  There are quite a few places where the code
> uses a for-loop instead of calling the corresponding BLAS routine.

That would be great as Atlas can transparently replace the BLAS. Debian does
that for GNU R and GNU Octave, and the speed gain can be of the order of 8
or 9 times [ for suitable operations and matrix sizes, of course ].

Dirk

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