I just build Julia 1.0.1 on a cluster and linked it against MKL (2019). As a simple benchmark, I compared the performance of squaring a 1000 x 1000 matrix against the Julia binaries from the website (OpenBLAS). I remember I did this for 0.6.4 at some point and found MKL to be faster by 30% or so. Ho…

OpenBLAS vs MKL

carstenbauer November 10, 2018, 1:37am 4

openblas_vs_mkl timings

My code is completely dominated by matrix multiplications.

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