On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Sturla Molden <stu...@molden.no> wrote: > On 05.03.2012 14:26, "V. Armando Solé" wrote: > >> In 2009 there was a thread in this mailing list concerning the access to >> BLAS from C extension modules. >> >> If I have properly understood the thread: >> >> http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2009-November/046567.html >> >> the answer by then was that those functions were not exposed (only f2py >> functions). >> >> I just wanted to know if the situation has changed since 2009 because it >> is not uncommon that to optimize some operations one has to sooner or >> later access BLAS functions that are already wrapped in numpy (either >> from ATLAS, from the Intel MKL, ...) > > Why do you want to do this? It does not make your life easier to use > NumPy or SciPy's Python wrappers from C. Just use BLAS directly from C > instead.
Of course it does make his life easier. This way he does not have to distribute his own BLAS/LAPACK/etc... Please stop presenting as truth things which are at best highly opiniated. You already made such statements many times, and it is not helpful at all. David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
