Hi, On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stef...@berkeley.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> As many of you know, speed has been a point of contention in >>> scikit-image for a long time. We've made a very deliberate decision to >>> focus on writing high-level, understandable code (via Python and >>> Cython): both to lower the barrier to entry for newcomers, and to lessen >>> the burden on maintainers. But execution time comparisons, vs OpenCV >>> e.g., left much to be desired. >>> >>> I think we have hit a turning point in the road. Binary wheels for >>> Numba (actually, llvmlite) were recently uploaded to PyPi, making this >>> technology available to users on both pip and conda installations. The >>> importance of this release on pypi should not be dismissed, and I am >>> grateful to the numba team and Continuum for making that decision. >> >> >> Agreed. Note that there are no Windows wheels up on PyPI (yet, or not >> coming?). Given that there are no SciPy wheels for Windows either I don't >> think that that changes your argument much - people should just use a binary >> distribution on Windows - but I thought I'd point it out anway. > > We might be close to a working scipy wheel - discussion evolving over > at https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/7551#issuecomment-314922271
Following up on my own post - updates on progress for a scipy wheel here: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/759 > If we do succeed, that would make the lack of a numba wheel for > Windows much more significant. > > Does anyone know Continuum's plans in this matter? Is the numba > wheel recipe open-source? Can anyone comment here? The basic question is - what would happen if Continuum stopped supplying a pypi wheel? If the answer is the standard open source answer - someone else would take over pretty quickly - that's fine. Otherwise, it's a problem. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ scikit-image mailing list scikit-image@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-image
