[Numpy-discussion] how to use numpy-vendor

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 08/14/2012 06:34 AM, Ondřej Čertík wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How should one use the "vendor" repository (https://github.com/numpy/vendor)
> in Wine? Should I put the binaries into .wine/drive_c/Python25/libs/,
> or somewhere else?
> I've search all mailinglists and I didn't find any information on it.
> I vaguely remember
> that somebody mentioned it somewhere, but I am not able to find it.
> Once I understand it,
> I'll send a PR updating the README.
>
>
> I've played with OpenBlas and managed to compile numpy with it on linux,
> following the tutorial [1] and it works, so at least on linux it's clear to me.

One thing to be aware of with OpenBlas is that it is *very* tuned to the 
CPU at hand. As in, every CPU has hand-coded *assembly* and the makefile 
more or less probes for which specific CPU generation from which vendor 
you have and compiles and link the corresponding assembly file. So you 
may have to take some care that you don't compile and ship a version 
that breaks if you don't have SSE3 installed etc...

(Unless OpenBlas has changed recently. I'm not saying I'm right, I'm 
saying it should be looked into.)

Dag


>
> In wine, since all the binaries are .a files, the only way to check
> that it works is to
> install it and check that things like eigh() are much faster. Is there
> some other way?
> On linux using openblas as an .so library, I just do "ldd" and all is clear.
>
> Ondrej
>
>
> [1] http://www.der-schnorz.de/2012/06/optimized-linear-algebra-and-numpyscipy/
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