On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > There's the switch to OpenBLAS and building the right selection > >> > mechanism > >> > for which arch to use: > >> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/20350. > That > >> > seems > >> > now feasible to complete on a reasonable time-scale, and the problems > >> > with > >> > OpenBLAS seem to be mostly solved. Binaries which crash for ~1% of > users > >> > (which ATLAS-SSE2 would result in) are still not acceptable I think. > >> > >> Where are you getting this SSE2 number from btw? > > > > This is info Matthew just collected from Firefox crash reports: > > https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/4829#issuecomment-100354752 > > Ah, hmm. I guess it's possible that decade-old machines are less > reliable and overrepresented in crash reports, but who knows :-) > > It might become reasonable at some point to just go ahead and put up > binaries (ideally with some check so that they fail in a > human-readable way), and see how many people email us. If it's too > many we can always take the wheels down again. > We should probably do that for the next release, if and only if we cannot make the switch to OpenBLAS in time. Ralf
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