2013/3/5 Kenneth C. Arnold <kcarn...@seas.harvard.edu>: > It was a pretty easy build on Mac -- I just used MacPorts to install and > select an llvm. Of course Anaconda is even easier. > > I'd say Numba is a medium-term consideration. It's enough trouble getting > everybody using C compilers, so adding LLVM to the mix is probably way too > much of a change for the short term. Not to mention that Numba is still > young, e.g., its error messages were totally awful when I tried it a couple > of weeks ago. But in there are a number of very interesting advantages in > the medium term: > > 1. It will likely become easier to get an LLVM toolchain installed, > potentially even easier than other compiler toolchains, if tools like > Anaconda take off. Numba could probably be built as a self-contained binary > package too. > > 2. Numba will allow greater just-in-time specialization (through on-demand > compilation) and optimization (through JIT) than Cython. > > 3. Code will be more readable and maintainable, since it's just Python. This > will reduce the barrier for optimized implementations. > > 4. It looks like they're going to start targeting GPUs too, so we'd get that > basically free.
I agree. If people are interested, please feel free to start experimenting with implementations of standard machine learning using numba and following the scikit-learn coding guidelines and API. That will make it easier for future discussions to have accumulated some experience on a real sklearn-like code base. -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
