26.01.2014 14:44, Dinesh Vadhia kirjoitti: > This conversation gets discussed often with Numpy developers but > since the requirement for optimized Blas is pretty common these > days, how about distributing Numpy with OpenBlas by default? People > who don't want optimized BLAS or OpenBLAS can then edit the > site.cfg file to add/remove. I can never remember if Numpy comes > with Atlas by default but either way, if using MKL is not feasible > because of its licensing issues then Numpy has to be re-compiled > with OpenBLAS (for example). Why not make it easier for developers > to use Numpy with an in-built optimized Blas.
The Numpy Windows binaries distributed in the numpy project at sourceforge.net are compiled with ATLAS, which should count as an optimized BLAS. I don't recall what's the situation with OSX binaries, but I'd believe they're with Atlas too. If you are suggesting bundling OpenBLAS with Numpy source releases --- arguments against: OpenBLAS is big, and still rapidly moving. Moreover, bundling it with Numpy does not really make it any easier to build. -- Pauli Virtanen _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion