From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Dec 18 09:18:25 2002
Subject: Re: 0*NaN within matrix multiplication
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>
Cc: "Lippert, Ross A." <Ross dot Lippert at celera dot com>,    "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>,    Schloegl Alois <alois.schloegl@tugraz.at>, bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:17:33 -0600

On 18-Dec-2002, Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov> wrote:

| If we are going to deal with it I think we should deal with it in
| the BLAS code itself.  You could start by writing a small test
| program which demostrates the problem and sending it to 
| lapack at cs dot utk dot edu dot 

That's a good place to start.

Also, since ATLAS works correctly, and is generally better than the
reference implementation and about as fast (or faster) than most
vendor versions, why not just use ATLAS?

jwe



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