On 12 Nov 2019, at 3:27 am, Ian Henriksen <insertinterestingnameh...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Extra data point here: SciPy already dropped support for Accelerate as of
> version 1.2.0.
>
> Best,
>
> Ian Henriksen
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:40 PM Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apple has dropped support for Accelerate. It has bugs that have not been
> fixed, and is closed source so we cannot fix them ourselves. We have
> been getting a handful of reports from users who end up building NumPy
> on macOS, and inadvertently link to Accelerate, then end up with wrong
> linalg results. In PR 14880 https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14880 I
> propose to disallow finding it when building NumPy. At this time it will
> remain in distutils as one of the backends to support users, but how do
> people feel about a future PR to totally remove it?
+1 from this side - when switching the packaged version of Scipy to OpenBLAS
(already taking Numpy along the way) I noticed barely any performance penalties
(if - with some benchmarks - it wasn’t actually faster than Accelerate).
Cheers,
Derek
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