[Numpy-discussion] GSoC project: draft of proposal

[Leo Mao]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:43 AM, alex <argriffi at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> I think everyone who wants fast numpy linalg already connects to
> something like OpenBLAS or MKL.  When these are not available, numpy
> uses its own "lapack-lite" which is way slower.  I don't think you are
> going to beat OpenBLAS, so are you suggesting to speed up the slow
> default "lapack-lite", or are you proposing something else?
>

I think most CPUs nowadays support instructions like SSE2, AVX etc,
so maybe numpy can use OpenBLAS (or somethine else) by default ?
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