R devel - Feb 2014 - acml blas+lapac in R

dear experts

I'd like to ask you, probably on behalf all of us who try to 
use AMD's ACML for performance optimisation a question.
There seem to be problem when these two, R and ACML are 
coupled,
described here:

http://devgurus.amd.com/message/1255852#1255852

I'd like to ask, while not being a programmer/developer, how 
incorrect and dangerous this might be?
maybe such a setup must be avoided all together?

many thanks & regards

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On 25/02/2014 08:42, lejeczek wrote:
> dear experts
>
> I'd like to ask you, probably on behalf all of us who try to use
AMD's
> ACML for performance optimisation a question.
> There seem to be problem when these two, R and ACML are coupled,
> described here:
>
> http://devgurus.amd.com/message/1255852#1255852
>
> I'd like to ask, while not being a programmer/developer, how incorrect
> and dangerous this might be?
> maybe such a setup must be avoided all together?
As an R developer is reputed to have said several years ago

'Do you want it fast or do you want it right?'

Handing NAs correctly is pretty fundamental to R's operation.  There are 
several other optimized BLAS which are not known to work incorrectly, 
and I always use one of those.
>
> many thanks & regards
>
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