On 12/07/2012 07:58 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > One way of fixing this I'm sort of itching to do is to create a > "pylapack" project which can iterate quickly on these build issues, > run-time selection of LAPACK backend and so on. (With some templates > generating some Cython code it shouldn't be more than a few days for an > MVP.) > > Then patch NumPy to attempt to import pylapack (and if it's there, get a > table of function pointers from it). > > The idea would be that powerusers could more easily build pylapack the > way they wanted, in isolation, and then have other things switch to that > without a rebuild (note again that it would need to export a table of > function pointers). > > But I'm itching to do too many things, we'll see.
Update: This can be tackled as part of Hashdist funding, so I'm hoping that I can 3-4 days on improving the LAPACK situation in January; as an option for power-users at first, hopefully something nice for everybody eventually. Opinions on the plan above welcome. Dag Sverre > > Dag Sverre > > On 12/07/2012 07:09 PM, Bradley M. Froehle wrote: >> Aha, thanks for the clarification. I've always been surpassed that NumPy >> doesn't ship with a copy of CBLAS. It's easy to compile --- just a thin >> wrapper over BLAS, if I remember correctly. >> >> -Brad >> >> >> On Friday, December 7, 2012 at 4:01 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Bradley M. Froehle >>> <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: >>>> Right, but if I link to libcblas, cblas would be available, no? >>> >>> >>> >>> No, because we don't explicitly check for CBLAS. We assume it is there >>> if Atlas, Accelerate or MKL is found. >>> >>> cheers, >>> David >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
