On 6 December 2013 20:09, Chris Barker <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2. in the absence of statistics, can we do an experiment by putting one >> wheel up on PyPi which contains SSE3 instructions, for python 3.3 I propose, >> and seeing for how many (if any) users this goes wrong? > > > sounds good -- it looks like SSE3 has been around a good while: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE3 > > 8+ years is a pretty long time in computer land! > > anyone know how long SSE3 has been around?
I don't have statistics but I do have a couple of data points. Both of the computers I regularly use (my work desktop and my girlfriend's laptop) have SSE2 but not SSE3. Really I'm not sure that releasing a potentially compatible binary - with no install time checks - is such a good idea. What we really want is a situation where you can confidently advise someone to just "pip install numpy" without caveats i.e. a solution that "just works". Oscar _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
