[Numpy-discussion] Default builds of OpenBLAS development branch are now fork safe

[Olivier Grisel]

2014-02-20 11:32 GMT+01:00 Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com>:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Just a heads up: thanks to the tireless work of Olivier Grisel, the OpenBLAS
>> development branch is now fork-safe when built with its default threading
>> support. (It is still not thread-safe when built using OMP for threading and
>> gcc, but this is not the default.)
>>
>> Gory details: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/294
>>
>> Check it out - if it works you might want to consider lobbying your favorite
>> distro to backport it.
>>
>
> debian unstable and the upcoming ubuntu 14.04 are already fixed.

Nice!

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Olivier
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