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Subject: Re: Free AMD Core Math Library (BLAS/LAPACK) + Ada
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Date: 2012-07-11T20:30:45+01:00
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Ken Thomas <kst@ecs.soton.ac.uk> writes:

> Perhaps we should remember the motivation of the BLAS/LAPACK. A
> standard specification that is implemented by hardware companies such
> as Intel, AMD using all the wizardry to obtain high performance. A
> related question is given the Ada .Numerics package
> Generic_Real_Arrays how do we modify the build to link in the high
> performance tools?

Well, with GNAT GPL 2012/GCC 4.7 you can't, because Generic_Real_Arrays
has been rewritten in pure Ada (using Jacobi, which I gather is not
known to be fast) in order not to use BLAS because of a feeling that
some BLAS's might use an unacceptable numeric approximation. Personally
I think this was daft.