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Re:Giving up on Julia by kazinator on Friday May 13, 2016 @06:03PM (#11693495)
BLAS is an API, more or less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprogra...

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Re:Giving up on Julia by tavert on Friday May 13, 2016 @06:40PM (#11693650)
And the Fortran-convention BLAS API is quite a bit more widely used than the CBLAS API. idamax in the Fortran API, and pivot vectors in LAPACK factorizations, return 1-based indices.
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