From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Love Subject: Re: blis Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 23:37:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87shfwom0c.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk> References: <20170907191304.GH2239@macbook42.flashner.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45513) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqRtj-000281-3u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:37:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqRte-0001dj-7r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:37:15 -0400 Received: from tranquility.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.145]:57843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqRte-0001cn-0T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:37:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170907191304.GH2239@macbook42.flashner.co.il> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Thu, 7 Sep 2017 22:13:04 +0300") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Efraim Flashner writes: > I admit, looking at the commit, I'm a little jealous that there wasn't > an aarch64 special version. I checked in $repo/config=B9 and there's a > config folder for armv7a, armv8a and longsoon3a, among other options. It > might be worth having some of these be the default option for these > platforms, since it should overlap with our supported architectures. Is it really known to be significantly faster than OpenBLAS on those platforms, and has that been reported if so? It seems unlikely for loongsong, for instance.