From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 21 15:36:11 2004
Subject: Re: Octave and threaded ATLAS and FFTW
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
Cc: help-octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:34:20 -0600

On 16-Jan-2004, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dmitri at unm dot edu> wrote:

| Frankly, by reading ATLAS docs, I do not understand why would I get
| any improvements since ATLAS by itself will not spawn separate
| tasks...

I was guessing that they might take advantage of multiple CPUs even if
the main process does not.  But if they don't do that, then I don't
see any advantage in using them with Octave now.

jwe



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