Mir GLAS vs Intel MKL: which is faster?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/24/16 9:18 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 12:52:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Could you also add a comparison with SciPy? People often say it's just
>> fine for scientific computing.
>
> That's just BLAS (so could be mkl, could be openBLAS, could be netlib,
> etc. just depends on the system and compilation choices) under the hood,
> you'd just see a small overhead from the python wrapping. Basically,
> everyone uses a BLAS or Eigen.

I see, thanks. To the extent the Python-specific overheads are 
measurable, it might make sense to include the benchmark.

> An Eigen comparison would be interesting.

That'd be awesome especially since the article text refers to it.


Andrei