On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Julian Taylor < jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 26.10.2016 06:34, Charles R Harris wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > There is a proposed random number package PR now up on github: > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8209. It is from > > oleksandr-pavlyk <https://github.com/oleksandr-pavlyk> and implements > > the number random number package using MKL for increased speed. I think > > we are definitely interested in the improved speed, but I'm not sure > > numpy is the best place to put the package. I'd welcome any comments on > > the PR itself, as well as any thoughts on the best way organize or use > > of this work. Maybe scikit-random > Note that this thread is a continuation of https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2016-July/075822.html > > I'm not a fan of putting code depending on a proprietary library into > numpy. > This should be a standalone package which may provide the same interface > as numpy. > I don't really see a problem with that in principle. Numpy can use Intel MKL (and Accelerate) as well if it's available. It needs some thought put into the API though - a ``numpy.random_intel`` module is certainly not what we want. Ralf
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