I don’t see any reason why SSE couldn’t be added as tags in the Wheel filename fwiw.
That doesn’t help for things like MKL though. On Jan 29, 2014, at 5:50 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:04 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the SSE issue is a bit of a side discussion: most people who care > about performance already know how to install numpy. What we care about here > are people who don't care so much about fast eigenvalue decomposition, but > want to use e.g. pandas. Building numpy in a way that supports every > architecture is both doable and acceptable IMO. > > Exactly -- I'm pretty sure SSE2 is being suggested because that's the lowest > common denominator that we expect to see a lot of -- if their really are a > lot of non-SSE-2 machines out there we could leave that off, too. > > The failure mode is fairly horrible though, and the gain is not that > substantial anyway compared to really optimized installation (MKL, etc... as > provided by Continuum or us). > > Building numpy wheels is not hard, we can do that fairly easily (I have > already done so several times, the hard parts have nothing to do with wheel > or even python, and are related to mingw issues on win 64 bits). > > David, > > Where is numpy as with building "out of the box" with the python.org binary > for Windows, and the "standard" MS compilers that are used with those builds. > That used to be an easy "python setup.py install" away -- has that changed? > If so, is this a known bug, or a known we-aren't-supporting-that? > > i.e. it would be nice if anyone setup to build C extensions could "just build > numpy". > > This has always been possible, and if not, that's certainly considered as a > bug (I would be eager to fix). > > Numpy is actually fairly easy to build if you have a C Compiler (which is the > obvious pain point on windows). Scipy, and fortran is where things fall apart. > > David > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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