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Note on BLAS - Basic Linear Algebra System

Note also that FreeMat uses BLAS as part of its matrix manipulation routines. During the configure process, FreeMat will attempt to find an optimized BLAS. If it fails, you can either specify a location using the -with-blas option to configure, or use the provided BLAS using the -with-miniblas option. This should be used as a last resort. It is an unoptimized version that will generally result in less than ideal performance of FreeMat. I recommend the ATLAS project (math-atlas.sourceforge.net) to generate an automatically tuned set of BLAS routines for your specific machine.



Samit K. Basu 2005-03-16