On 08/14/2017 03:35 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
That said, ATLAS should really go away, unless they add support for runtime CPU detection and the result matches or exceeds OpenBLAS performance. In its current state (which has been the state since its inception), ATLAS is really unsuitable for distribution packaging. They just do not care about binary packages, at all.
This is kind of like saying vim should go away, because emacs is better.
It is the job of the distribution to ensure that software uses the most efficient BLAS/LAPACK implementation available. Other distributions ship symlinks ensuring that. The current packaging in Fedora is horrible.
"Other distributions" typically end up using reference BLAS/LAPACK due to the horrible symlink/alternatives system, and/or end up with broken implementations.
I'm sure a better way to do things would be possible, it's just hard to imagine a perfect system.
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