{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kaneplusplus/bigalgebra/issues/3","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kaneplusplus/bigalgebra/issues/3/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kaneplusplus/bigalgebra/issues/3/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kaneplusplus/bigalgebra/issues/3/events","html_url":"https://github.com/kaneplusplus/bigalgebra/issues/3","id":64535262,"number":3,"title":"64-bit BLAS tests?","user":{"login":"cdeterman","id":3091179,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3091179?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman","html_url":"https://github.com/cdeterman","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cdeterman/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-03-26T14:08:29Z","updated_at":"2015-03-26T18:41:11Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Did you have any tests you had previously done to test the REFBLAS framework?  If you have glanced over at my fork I am working to implement `RcppArmadillo` to these `big.matrix` objects.  I believe I can remove the necessity to have these REFBLAS files by interfacing with `RcppArmadillo` but I want to test to make sure everything is working appropriately before I make any such suggestion to remove those files.  Let me know your thoughts."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kaneplusplus/bigalgebra/issues/comments/86663095","html_url":"https://github.com/kaneplusplus/bigalgebra/issues/3#issuecomment-86663095","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kaneplusplus/bigalgebra/issues/3","id":86663095,"user":{"login":"kaneplusplus","id":175135,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/175135?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus","html_url":"https://github.com/kaneplusplus","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaneplusplus/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-26T18:41:11Z","updated_at":"2015-03-26T18:41:11Z","body":"@cdeterman We did experiment a while ago with a few different 64-bit libraries. The issue we ran into was that the interfaces were slightly different. The current implementation uses R's default BLAS/LAPACK libraries and it would be great include alternative bindings. However, I'm not entirely clear on what RcppArmadillo buys us. Does it make linking against the MKL or ACML easier? How is it more than an extra layer between the current code and the .so? I'm not opposed to it and I'm not trying to give you a hard time but I do want to be clear about the benefit. Thanks.\r\n\r\n@bwlewis Would you like to weigh in?"}}