On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Sturla Molden <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21.11.2012 15:55, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > >> I think the point is that it's easy for programmers to decide to avoid >> GCD if they want to use multiprocessing. But it's not so easy for them >> to decide to avoid BLAS. > > Actually the answer from Apple was that no API except POSIX is supported > on both sides of a fork without calling exec. > > That certainly affects more than the GCD.
Yes, but still only the Apple-specific APIs like Cocoa, Core Audio, etc. The bottom line is that a script that runs on Linux will almost certainly run on OS X... unless it uses BLAS and your numpy is linked to Accelerate. numpy linking to Accelerate breaks things. -n _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
