[Pandas-dev] Setuptools detection of host cpuinfo and/or header file availablity

[Jeff Reback]

I believe Numexpr does this (not sure it's 'reliable', but it's cross platform)

I am think this is runtime - but could also be in setup 

On Apr 26, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Stephen Lin <swlin at post.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hi Yoval,
> 
> I had a question about setuptools that Wes suggested I run by you...do
> you know if there's there's a canonical (and, hopefully by extension,
> reliable and cross-platform...) way of checking for host cpu
> capabilities and header file availability in a python setuptools
> script to configure a build?
> 
> This is for potentially including code using SSE intrinsics into pandas.
> 
> Stephen
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