On 26/01/14 13:44, Dinesh Vadhia wrote:> This conversation gets discussed often with Numpy developers but since > the requirement for optimized Blas is pretty common these days, how > about distributing Numpy with OpenBlas by default? People who don't > want optimized BLAS or OpenBLAS can then edit the site.cfg file to > add/remove. I can never remember if Numpy comes with Atlas by default > but either way, if using MKL is not feasible because of its licensing > issues then Numpy has to be re-compiled with OpenBLAS (for example). > Why not make it easier for developers to use Numpy with an in-built > optimized Blas. > Btw, just in case some folks from Intel are listening: how about > releasing MKL binaries for all platforms for developers to do with it > what they want ie. free. You know it makes sense!
There is an active discussion on this here: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/294 Sturla _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
