See https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2012-August/063589.html and replies in that thread.
Quote from an Apple engineer in that thread: "For API outside of POSIX, including GCD and technologies like Accelerate, we do not support usage on both sides of a fork(). For this reason among others, use of fork() without exec is discouraged in general in processes that use layers above POSIX." On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Ilhan Polat <ilhanpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's probably because I know nothing about the issue, is there any > reference I can read about? > > But in general, please feel free populate new items in the wiki page. > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> I've been wishing we'd stop shipping Accelerate for years, because of >> how it breaks multiprocessing – that doesn't seem to be on your list >> yet. >> >> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:50 AM, Ilhan Polat <ilhanpo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > A few months ago, I had the innocent intention to wrap LDLt >> decomposition >> > routines of LAPACK into SciPy but then I am made aware that the minimum >> > required version of LAPACK/BLAS was due to Accelerate framework. Since >> then >> > I've been following the core SciPy team and others' discussion on this >> > issue. >> > >> > We have been exchanging opinions for quite a while now within various >> SciPy >> > issues and PRs about the ever-increasing Accelerate-related issues and >> I've >> > compiled a brief summary about the ongoing discussions to reduce the >> > clutter. >> > >> > First, I would like to kindly invite everyone to contribute and sharpen >> the >> > cases presented here >> > >> > https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/Dropping-support-for-Accelerate >> > >> > The reason I specifically wanted to post this also in NumPy mailing >> list is >> > to probe for the situation from the NumPy-Accelerate perspective. Is >> there >> > any NumPy specific problem that would indirectly effect SciPy should the >> > support for Accelerate is dropped? >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> > NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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