Re: OpenBLAS and performance

[Pjotr Prins]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 09:00:46PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > I do think we need to default to a conservative openblas for general
> > use. Question is how we make it fly on dedicated hardware.
> 
> Have you tried preloading the special library with LD_PRELOAD?

It is not a question of what I can do. It is a question of how we give
other people the benefit of optimized libs in an elegant way.

I think channels actually should make a difference if we don't cater
in default Guix for such use cases.

Performance matters in some circles.

Pj.