Vinh Q. Nguyen - Optimized R and Python: standard BLAS vs. ATLAS vs. OpenBLAS vs. MKLOptimized R and Python: standard BLAS vs. ATLAS vs. OpenBLAS vs. MKL Revolution Analytics recently released Revolution Open R, a downstream version of R built using Intel's Math Kernel Library (MKL). The post mentions that comparable improvements are observed on Mac OS X where the ATLAS blas library is used. A reader also expressed his hesitation in the Comments section for a lack of a comparison
