[SciPy-Dev] Use vecLibFort instead of Accelerate?

[Sturla Molden]

Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) Pull in our own versions of the sgemv workaround in scipy;
> 2) Use vecLibFort to replace our own Accelerate wrappers.
> 
> Having the Accelerate wrappers and fixes go in one place seems like a
> good idea in general, but I know nothing about the issues, I'm afraid.

A global fix would solve the problem everywhere. Probably easier to
maintain.

 
> Sturla - I saw you asking the author of vecLibFort about a cblas_sgemv
> fix at [1] - would the plan be to use vecLibFort in numpy also?

That was why I asked. My current fix for NumPy adds some minor changes the
dotblas C code. I would rather avoid this.


Sturla