Re: [Numpy-discussion] Dropping support for Accelerate

2017-07-23 Thread Ilhan Polat
Ouch, that's from 2012 :( I'll add this thread as a reference to the wiki list. On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Nathan Goldbaum wrote: > See https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/ > 2012-August/063589.html and replies in that thread. > > Quote from an Apple engineer in that thread

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Dropping support for Accelerate

2017-07-23 Thread Nathan Goldbaum
See https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2012-August/063589.html and replies in that thread. Quote from an Apple engineer in that thread: "For API outside of POSIX, including GCD and technologies like Accelerate, we do not support usage on both sides of a fork(). For this reason amon

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Dropping support for Accelerate

2017-07-23 Thread Ilhan Polat
That's probably because I know nothing about the issue, is there any reference I can read about? But in general, please feel free populate new items in the wiki page. On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > I've been wishing we'd stop shipping Accelerate for years, because of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Dropping support for Accelerate

2017-07-23 Thread Nathaniel Smith
I've been wishing we'd stop shipping Accelerate for years, because of how it breaks multiprocessing – that doesn't seem to be on your list yet. On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:50 AM, Ilhan Polat wrote: > A few months ago, I had the innocent intention to wrap LDLt decomposition > routines of LAPACK into