Ralf Gommers wrote:
> Thanks Sturla, interesting details as always. You didn't state your
> preference by the way, do you have one?
I use Accelerate because it is the easier for me to use when building
SciPy. But that is from a developer's perspective.
As you know, Accelerate breaks a common (a
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Sturla Molden
wrote:
> Ralf Gommers wrote:
>
> > For most routines performance seems to be comparable, and both are much
> > better than ATLAS. When there's a significant difference, I have the
> > impression that OpenBLAS is more often the slower one (example:
On 29/06/16 21:55, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
Speed is important, but it's far from the only consideration, especially
since differences between the top tier libraries are usually rather
small.
It is not even the more important consideration. I would say that
correctness matters most. Everything
On 29/06/16 21:55, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
Accelerate is closed, so when we hit bugs then there's often nothing we
can do except file a bug with apple and hope that it gets fixed within a
year or two. This isn't hypothetical -- we've hit cases where accelerate
gave wrong answers. Numpy actually c
