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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Are vendors implementing BLAS?
Message-ID: <14500@admin.mips.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 89 06:06:36 GMT
References: <449@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <449@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
>Is anyone out there aware of other vendors implementing the BLAS for
>their machines?
>I would expect that most presently available could get improved
>performance from special implementations of the BLAS (as opposed to
>just compiling the FORTRAN version).

If special implementations could provide dramatically better performance
than a compiler, the compiler needs work.  Our all-FORTRAN number is
within about 10% of our coded rate.
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