On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Chris Barker
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Ralf Gommers
wrote: Binaries which crash for ~1% of users (which ATLAS-SSE2 would result in) are still not acceptable I think.
what instruction set would an OpenBLAS build support? wouldn't we still need to select a lowest common denominator instructions set to support?
I believe OpenBLAS does run-time selection too.
And SEE2 was introduced with the Pentium 4in 2001 -- that is a very long time ago!
I think the 1% number came from a survey of firefox downloads -- that may well not be representative of the numpy-using population.
and depending on HOW it failed, 1% might be OK if we could give a reasonable error message (which maybe we can't...)
I think we discussed before having a check and error clause in __init__.py saying something like "You have a really old computer, you can't use this binary, please go to sourceforge and download the exe installer...". Matthew