[gfortran,patch] New option to use BLAS routines for matrix multiplication

[Steven Bosscher]

On Saturday 07 October 2006 11:16, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > OK for mainline?
>
> It looks like a cool improvement -- but must this be in GCC 4.2?
> Don't take this as discouragement, I really like the idea of using
> BLAS more when it's available (rationale: why invent the matmul
> wheel twice? ;-)
>
> Does the driver know how to link in the BLAS library itself, or is
> it up to the user to provide the extra -lblas (or whatever) option?
>
> Where is the documentation of the new options and this new feature?

Oh, and how does it handle the MATMUL(TRANSPOSE()) optimization?

Gr.
Steven