On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM Sayed Adel <se...@imavr.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to bring your attention to an important change to NumPy that will
> affect CPU compatibility requirements on x86.
>
> PR #28896 (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/28896) is reorganizing how
> NumPy handles x86 CPU features by moving from individual instruction set
> extensions to standardized microarchitecture levels. As part of this
> change,
>
> *the minimum CPU requirement for x86 systems will be raised to x86-64-v2*If
> your x86 CPU was manufactured in 2009 or later, you likely won't be
> affected, unless you're using Intel Atom CPUs released before 2013.
> We're making this change in 2025, when CPUs that don't support x86-64-v2
> are now over 15 years old. Supporting these antiquated processors increases
> maintenance burden and binary size.
> Bumping the default baseline can also increase the performance since not
> all code paths are dispatched.
> --
> Cheers,
> Sayed
>
>
Sounds good to me.

Chuck
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