The generated code handles all cleanup where more than one dimension is less than the blocking factor. This simplification allows ATLAS to avoid having to test cases when selecting user cleanup. Once the matrices in question are larger than , cleanup with more than one dimension less than rapidly stops being a performance factor. Small matrices where this cleanup is a factor are almost certainly going to be handled by ATLAS's small-case code anyway, so it seems unlikely that this simplification will hurt performance in practice. Section 5.6.5 shows this in a more formal way.
Users need to be very careful when supplying cleanup, because if the user indicates that a dimension must be a compile-time variable, rather than a runtime variable, ATLAS will generate up to routines to handle user cleanup, and since user routines are compiled with all BETA variants, it is possible to generate cleanup cases, in addition to ATLAS's generated cases. It is therefore recommended that the user supply cleanup that uses run-time arguments whenever possible, and indicate kernels taking compile-time dimensions as not to be used for cleanup.