Mir GLAS vs Intel MKL: which is faster?

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On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 17:46:07 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 13:49:35 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 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
>
> Eigen was added (but only data, still need to write text). 
> Relative charts was added. You was added "Acknowledgements" 
> section --Ilya

It would also be interesting to compare the results to Blaze [1]. 
According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfn0BVOegac it is 
faster than Eigen and on some instances faster than even Intel 
MKL.

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze