Using MacPorts Python packages in different Python

[Frank Schima]

py-numpy and py-scipy have atlas variants which use the atlas port instead of the Accelerate framework. The atlas port does tune to your processor. Have you tried that? I have Cc'ed Adam, the maintainer of these ports, if he could comment on their performance with the atlas variant? Maybe the Intel MKL libraries could be added as a variant?


Cheers!
Frank

On Apr 17, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Kamesh Krishnamurthy wrote:

> My main reason for using Enthought Python is that they build Numpy and Scipy with intel MKL libraries -- these are significantly faster than the Accelerate framework on the Mac which MacPorts Numpy and Scipy use. 
> 
> It would be great if MacPorts can include the Intel MKL runtime libraries in their distribution. I have no idea what this would mean in terms of getting licences; however, given that the BLAS libraries form the backbone of any scientific computing software, I'm guessing this would be a popular request.
> 
> Best,
> -Kamesh
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> On 17 April 2012 18:26, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Apr 17, 2012, at 08:15, Kamesh Krishnamurthy wrote:
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> > I have two installations of Python 2.7.2 -- from MacPorts and Enthought -- on my Mac. I use the Enthought Python as the primary one for performance reasons(MKL Blas included); however, my MacPorts distribution has several additional packages like pymacs, rope etc., which I would like to make available to the Enthought Python. (I'm actually trying to use MacPorts Emacs w/ Enthought Python, but also make use of the MacPorts-installed Rope, Pymacs for code completion in Emacs).
> >
> > Is there a clean way to make the MacPorts packages available to the Enthought Python without breaking anything? I'd prefer not having multiple copies of rope, pymacs etc., if possible.
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> They're not designed to be used that way; I don't know if they can be made to work that way.
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> If you have suggestions for how MacPorts python could be improved so that you no longer find it necessary to use someone else's python, we would appreciate hearing them.
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