Along with the myths about performance, the licence for the Intel stuff isn't what many people think... Anyhow, there's no need for MKL, since at least the ope

Along with the myths about performance, the licence for the Intel stuff isn't what many people think... Anyhow, there's no need for MKL, since at least the operations that matter are as fast in OpenBLAS on x86 up to AVX512 (and infinitely faster on other architectures). You can get that with the Debian packaging of Octave, for instance, and you can fiddle it system-wide on RHEL/Fedora. Thanks for working on Octave. I wish people would put money into it rather than (in the case of my university) paying enough for Matlab to fund one or two full-time staff who could do development and support of free stuff with Octave and other things like R. Multiply that by N universities in just in this country...