On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 6 December 2013 13:06, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > As Ralf, I think it is overkill. The problem of SSE vs non SSE is > because of > > one library, ATLAS, which as IMO the design flaw of being arch specific. > I > > always hoped we could get away from this when I built those special > > installers for numpy :) > > > > MKL does not have this issue, and now that openblas (under a BSD license) > > can be used as well, we can alleviate this for deployment. Building a > > deployment story for this is not justified. > > Oh, okay that's great. How hard would it be to get openblas numpy > wheels up and running? Would they be compatible with the existing > scipy etc. binaries? OpenBLAS is still pretty buggy compared to ATLAS (although performance in many cases seems to be on par); I don't think that will be well received for the official releases. We actually did discuss it as an alternative for Accelerate on OS X, but there was quite a bit of opposition. Ralf
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