Hi all, I wanted to know if there is any sane way to build numpy while linking to a different implementation of libm? A drop-in replacement for libm (e.g. openlibm) should in principle work, I guess, but I did not manage to actually make it work. As far as I understand the build code, setting MATHLIB=openlibm should suffice, but it did not. The build works fine, but in the end when running numpy apparently the functions of the system libm.so are used. I could not verify this directly (as I do not know how) but noticed that there is no performance difference between the builds - while there is one with pure C programs linked against libm and openlibm. Using amdlibm would require some work as the functions are prefixed with "_amd", I guess? Using intels libimf should work when using intels compiler, but I did not try this. With gcc I did not get it to work.
A quite general question: At the moment the performance and the accuracy of the base mathematical functions depends on the platform and libm-Implementation of the system. Although there are functions defined in npy_math, they are only used as fall-backs, if they are not provided by a library. (correct me if I am wrong here) Is there some plan to change this in the future and provide defined behaviour (specified accuracy and/or speed) across platforms? As I understood it Julia started openlibm for this reason (which is based on fdlibm/msun, same as npy_math). Cheers Nils
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