[SciPy-dev] [SciPy-user] Benchmark data

[Travis Oliphant]

Robert Kern wrote:

>Travis Oliphant wrote:
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>>Robert Kern wrote:
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>>>When we start to seriously look at this, we should consider using liboil
>>>to implement these optimizations.
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>>Hey, great find, that looks just like the kind of thing we'll want at 
>>some point.
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>>One way this could be done is just like the dotblas extension module so 
>>that if liboil is found on your system, an extension module is loaded 
>>that replaces the respective inner-loops of the affected functions. 
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>>Alternatively, at compile time, the right functions could be inserted in 
>>the ufunc function table to begin with...
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>liboil does this already. We would simply use the appropriate API
>function, say oil_conv_f64_u32(). In import_array(), we would call
>oil_init() which will select the appropriate implementations and make
>the function pointers point to them. Sometimes, some of those choices
>will be made at compile time, e.g. assembly implementations for the
>wrong architecure won't be compiled; others will be made at initialization.
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Right, I'm just wondering aloud if we would require liboil, bundle it 
in, or selectively use it at compile time.  It seems like a nice 
project, regardless.

-Travis