Oracle R Distribution, Oracle's
distribution of Open Source R, improves performance by dynamically
linking to optimized, multi-threaded BLAS libraries. Unlike open
source R, Oracle R Distribution uses all available cores and
processors when dynamically linked against optimized BLAS,
resulting in increased performance. Thus, the more cores available
to Oracle R Distribution, the higher performance for many
operations.
How is this possible? Standard R's internal BLAS
library wa...