Re: [gentoo-dev] Redoing BLAS/LAPACK in Gentoo, using FlexiBLAS

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 13:56 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> n=3 is just an example, but I think you will find dimension three to
> be quite popular among the people who live there.
> 
> For every researcher working directly with BLAS, there are a thousand
> users of software like Mathematica, MATLAB, Magma, Maple, Octave,
> SageMath, SciPy, etc. Typically these will hand off your computation
> regardless of size. Likewise for graphics and signal processing
> applications. On a distro where BLAS gets pulled in as a dependency, I
> think this generic use case has to be considered the main one.

I don't think the number of users alone is a key issue here.  The real
question is, do these users actually perform a humongous number of
small-dimension computations where such an overhead will actually
matter?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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