April 28, 2014
11:52 p.m.
On 29/04/14 01:30, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
I finally read this paper:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/pubs/blis2_toms_rev2.pdf
and I have to say that I'm no longer so convinced that OpenBLAS is the right starting point.
I think OpenBLAS in the long run is doomed as an OSS project. Having huge portions of the source in assembly is not sustainable in 2014. OpenBLAS (like GotoBLAS2 before it) runs a high risk of becoming abandonware. Sturla