Oracle Broadens Support for Open-source R Analytics (PCWorld)

Posted Aug 27, 2012 18:35 UTC (Mon) by dashesy (guest, #74652)
In reply to: Oracle Broadens Support for Open-source R Analytics (PCWorld) by njs
Parent article: Oracle Broadens Support for Open-source R Analytics (PCWorld)

OpenCV uses a similar idiom, if IPP is installed it can be used for better performance, otherwise it resorts to the open source version. The additional speed of OpenCV with IPP, or numpy with MKL is very dramatic for certain applications.

I personally use numpy built with MKL because that is the only way to beat MATLAB performance with matrices. I also prefer numpy to R (which I have little experience with), but if Oracle is going to distribute the MKL version of R binaries, it is just something to thank them for. Not everybody needs to build every single package, and once the MKL is installed one can recompile binaries, and benefit from MKL if a similar approach to OpenCV is used.