
			A BLAS subset for Algae

This directory contains a subset of the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra
Subroutines) package distributed by netlib with LAPACK.  (You can find
it at http://www.netlib.org/blas.)  If your system provides a BLAS
library, it may be significantly faster than the routines provided
here.  Some systems, though, have BLAS libraries that are broken or
that don't contain all of the routines you'll need.

Highly efficient machine-specific implementations of the BLAS are
available for many modern high-performance computers.  Alternatively,
the user can download ATLAS (http://www.netlib.org/atlas) to
automatically generate an optimized BLAS library for the architecture.
According to the folks at netlib, the set of BLAS routines provided in
this directory is a "reference" implementation, and "its use is
discouraged as it will not perform as well as a specially tuned
implementation".

When Algae is configured, the system is searched for a suitable BLAS
library.  If none is found, or if you've given the `--without-blas'
option, then the routines here are used.

The reference BLAS routines have changed very little in the last
decade.  These were downloaded from netlib on June 24, 2001.
