On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Binaries which crash for ~1% of users (which ATLAS-SSE2 would result in) >> are still not acceptable I think. > > > what instruction set would an OpenBLAS build support? wouldn't we still need > to select a lowest common denominator instructions set to support?
I believe OpenBLAS does run-time selection too. > And SEE2 was introduced with the Pentium 4in 2001 -- that is a very long > time ago! > > I think the 1% number came from a survey of firefox downloads -- that may > well not be representative of the numpy-using population. > > and depending on HOW it failed, 1% might be OK if we could give a reasonable > error message (which maybe we can't...) I think we discussed before having a check and error clause in __init__.py saying something like "You have a really old computer, you can't use this binary, please go to sourceforge and download the exe installer...". Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
