Performance Improvement Through Faster Software Components

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Want to report my problem maybe useful for others and maybe something to investigate.

Installing fastai on conda virtualenv get me problems trying to install Pillow-SIMD, and without trying to install Pillow-SIMD all is working.

Trying again to recreate the fastai env and install pillow-simd:

  • If I install pillow-simd without uninstalling pillow using the command

from fastai.vision import *

I got an error due the fact pillow-simd is a 5.3.0.post0 release, vs pillow a 5.4.x

  • Uninstalling pillow and installing again pillow-simd on the same command I got the error
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
    <ipython-input-3-c0e76450f370> in <module>
    ----> 1 from fastai.vision import *

    ~/anaconda3/envs/fastai-py37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/fastai/vision/__init__.py in <module>
          2 from ..basics import *
          3 from .learner import *
    ----> 4 from .data import *
          5 from .image import *
          6 from .transform import *

    ~/anaconda3/envs/fastai-py37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/fastai/vision/data.py in <module>
        204 
        205 def verify_image(file:Path, idx:int, delete:bool, max_size:Union[int,Tuple[int,int]]=None, dest:Path=None, n_channels:int=3,
    --> 206                  interp=PIL.Image.BILINEAR, ext:str=None, img_format:str=None, resume:bool=False, **kwargs):
        207     "Check if the image in `file` exists, maybe resize it and copy it in `dest`."
        208     try:

    AttributeError: module 'PIL' has no attribute 'Image'

Reinstalling pillow 5.3.0 got the same error.

Something is going on, no idea what but a pity I can’t use the SIMD accelleration.

Dind’t know if have something to do with my hw using Ryzen CPU and a dual GPU setup (AMD and Nvidia).

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