Linking against the IPEX library was thought to be a positive thing to do as it should have resulted in significant performance increases for NLP tasks running on Intel hardware. However
a) The performance increases were not forthcoming on the Intel hardware we primarily use.
b) Bugs were encountered that led to either spurious results or crashes when IPEX was enabled along with JIT profiling.
For these reason linking against the IPEX library is to be disabled
Linking against the IPEX library was thought to be a positive thing to do as it should have resulted in significant performance increases for NLP tasks running on Intel hardware. However
a) The performance increases were not forthcoming on the Intel hardware we primarily use. b) Bugs were encountered that led to either spurious results or crashes when IPEX was enabled along with JIT profiling.
For these reason linking against the IPEX library is to be disabled
Backports #2605 #2606