On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Ralf Gommers
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? 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...) -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov