Re: [Asymptote-developers] autotoolization

[Gregg R. <de...@mo...>]

On 20 Aug 2007 09:30:36 +0200, John Bowman <bo...@ma...> wrote:
> There is a good reasons for having Asymptote build a single-threaded
> version of gc. From the manual:
>
Yes, I saw that; but that's a reason to _use_ a single threaded gc;
it's not a reason for Asymptote to assume responsibility to _build_
the gc.  If the user has already built and installed a single-threaded
gc, for example, it would be pointless and presumptuous to repeat the
exercise in a client source tree. After all, it's an optional package,
and Asymptote doesn't build fftw/gsl.  Better to put the user in
control.

Note that I made a note in the INSTALL file about pros/cons of
different memory management configs; "single threaded is faster" might
be sufficient, but a little more detail would be nice too - is it
faster on all platforms?  Even on multi-core machines? etc. - one
would think a multithreaded version would be faster, after all.

-g