Re: More on binary packages and FFTW/ATLAS

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:21:12PM -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> > optimizations, while the rest of the binary code is generic, but ATLAS
> > does some compile-time optimizations. How has this been handled in the
> > past for the other binary distributions (Debian, Windows, or OSX)?
>
>
> On Debian, Camm has put a lot of work in for architecture-specific packages:

What perhaps is more important is that he made ATLAS into shared library.

That is also how Matlab handles the situation (it shipped with few pre-compiled
atlas.so libraries and does CPU detection on startup).

> Dirk

Dmitri.




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