BLAS, LAPACK, ...

[Markus Svensen]

Hi

As far as I understand, Octave is (largely) built on the BLAS, LAPACK,
LINPACK and EISPACK libraries? 

For a number of architectures, there exist specific,
architecture-tweaked versions of  these libraries which offer
significant increase in performance, compared the standard version (e.g.
offering parallelized code on multi-processor systems). Does anyone
knows if there is a way to make Octave use such pre-existing libraries?

If I've understood it correctly, the standard Octave installation comes
with its own sources for these packages, which are compiled into the
cruft library (libcruft.a/so).

Thanks

Markus Svensén

Max-Plank-Institute of
  Cognitive Neuroscience
Leipzig, Germany

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