Installing NumPy and SciPy on 64-bit Windows (with Pip)

You can install scipy and numpy using their wheels. First install wheel package if it’s already not there… pip install wheel Just select the package you want from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scipy Example: if you’re running python3.5 32 bit on Windows choose scipy-0.18.1-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl then it will automatically download. Then go to the command line and change the directory … Read more

Why can’t 64-bit Windows unwind user-kernel-user exceptions?

I’m the developer who wrote this Hotfix a loooooooong time ago as well as the blog post. The main reason is that the full register file isn’t always captured when you transition into kernel space, for performance reasons. If you make a normal syscall, the x64 Application Binary Interface (ABI) only requires you to preserve … Read more

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