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Re:Intel Distribution for Python by SavantIdiot on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:42AM (#27915437)
That's just plain sinister.

I'm really surprised popular numerical computing Python packages don't already have optimized hardware back-ends for things like NumPy... similar to ORC (OIL) which has been around for quite some time:

https://github.com/GStreamer/orc

But I don't know that much about Python under the hood, and I'm willing to be since so many academics work on this there's already optimized FFIs. I've used TensorFlow and it can offload tensor math to GPUs, but only NVIDIA's AFAIK.

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Re:Intel Distribution for Python by danieldk on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:59AM (#27915551)
I'm really surprised popular numerical computing Python packages don't already have optimized hardware back-ends for things like NumPy

I think it is hard to beat modern BLAS implementations for common operations. E.g. Apple Accelerate (which also implement the BLAS/LAPACK APIs) uses undocumented AMX instructions for large speedups compared to an ARM NEON implementation.

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