May 8, 2014
6:11 p.m.
On 09/05/14 02:51, Matthew Brett wrote:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Window-versions
Firefox crash reports now have about 1 percent of machines without SSE2. I suspect that people running new installs of numpy will have slightly better machines on average than Firefox users, but it's only a guess.
Ok, so that is 1 % of Windows users. https://gist.github.com/matthew-brett/9cb5274f7451a3eb8fc0
I wonder if we could add a CPU check on numpy import to give a polite 'install from the exe' message for people without SSE2.
Supporting Pentium II and Pentium III might not be the highest priority today. I would say just let the install fail and tell them to compile from source. Sturla