Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:28:55 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: muc-lists-freebsd-ports@moderators.muc.de Subject: Re: Atlas compilation Message-ID: <20041013232855.GA8980@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041013185552.GA91705@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <2sveogF1oscf3U1@uni-berlin.de> <20041012154856.GA67791@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041013143844.GA18223@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20041013165408.GA35673@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041013172139.GA12693@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20041013185552.GA91705@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:55:52AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:21:39AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:54:09AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:38:44AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:48:56AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 03:05:20PM +0200, Toyotoshy wrote: > > > > > > Hallo evrybody, > > > > > > I'm just a newbie and I'm trying to compile /usr/ports/math/atl= as > > > > > > Compilation started 6 hours ago and: > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > du /usr/ports/math/atlas > > > > > > .... > > > > > > 360160 /usr/ports/math/atlas > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > isn't it a bit too much time and space? > > > > >=20 > > > > > No, it's an enormous port. Depending on how slow your machine is= , it > > > > > may take days to build, or it could be as little as 24 hours. > > > >=20 > > > > Yes, not only does it do a lot of things, but since it is > > > > Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, it actually compiles > > > > several versions of each function and runs microbenchmarks on them = to > > > > determine which one to use. Ideally, you should build it when the > > > > system is nearly idle to avoid perturbing the results. > > >=20 > > > Hmm, that probably means the package is useless, right? > >=20 > > Not entirely given the build time, but certainly if you want to use it > > seriously, the package isn't all that useful. >=20 > *grumble* The build time is what annoys me too since it's longer than > the build time for the entire rest of the package collection (modulo > openoffice) :) Looking at the port, it looks like there might be some sense in splitting it in to seperate ports since it builds four versions of each library (threaded/nonthreaded + pic/nonpic). It might be intresting to do that and see how much time the individual versions take. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBbbo2XY6L6fI4GtQRAqLVAJ9WD1zwUP0qRSEcMOdDLEU3YhHdzQCgrq3i Oie5j8WemSJe6MPe8++FtlA= =vYts -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu--
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