On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Julian Taylor < jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > Will do, but the errors I am seeing only appear in the > > simc.inc.src-based implementation of BOOL_logical_or (they disappear if > > I disable the simd intrinsics manually in the numpy headers). > > > > that is because the simd code always looks at the stride (as it only can > run with unit strides) while the simple loop doesn't if the dimension is 1. > > GCC 4.1 is older than python2.5 which we do not support anymore in numpy > >= 1.8. > If you insist on using a buggy old compiler one could always use numpy 1.7. > Compiler age and Python version are not equivalent. The former is much harder to upgrade, and much more depends on it for a user. OS X still ships gcc 4.2, and the default compiler for Python 2.6 on OS X is gcc 4.0 which we definitely still support. On Windows we even need gcc 3.4.5 until we find the right way to get rid of it. Ralf > Also intrinsics are not more prone to compiler bugs than any other code, > so I see no reason to special case them. > The code itself is more prone bugs due to its higher complexity in some > parts, but I think it is reasonably well tested. >
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