On 14 August 2017 at 16:34, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> >> Can't read their mind, but did look at the build instructions. Doesn't look >> that hard to build and package, if the need arises (which is unlikely). And >> the current wheels will not disappear. So I don't really see an issue. > > Just FYI - after a lot of hard work over at > https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/7616 - mostly by Github user > Xoviat - we can now build Scipy wheels for Windows. I guess they'll > come out at the next Scipy release if not before.
This is amazing! Thanks for keeping us posted on that. Cheers, N > > Cheers, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > scikit-image mailing list > scikit-image@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-image _______________________________________________ scikit-image mailing list scikit-image@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-image
