[Numpy-discussion] Different results from repeated calculation

[Keith Goodman]

On 1/29/07, Russell E. Owen <rowen at cesmail.net> wrote:
> On a PPC MacOS X box I don't see an error. If I append
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     run()
> to your test code and then run it I get:
>
> repeatability #1 ... ok
> repeatability #2 ... ok
> repeatability #3 ... ok
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 3 tests in 0.156s
>
> OK

So far no one has duplicated the problem on windows or mac. The
problem has only been seen on linux with atlas3-sse2. (I get a similar
problem with other versions of atlas.)

Are you running atlas on your PPC mac? Perhaps atlas3-altivec?