Re: [OctDev] Improving pkg.m

[Juan P. C. <car...@if...>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Claudio Freire <kla...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Paul Dreik <sl...@pa...> wrote:
>> time make
>> 72 seconds
>> make clean (to get the caches warm. note, make clean does not remove
>> slicotlibrary.a. Maybe it should?)
>> time make
>> 18 seconds
>> make clean
>> time make -j4
>> 12 seconds
>> make clean
>> rm slicotlibrary.a
>> time make -j4
>> 63 seconds
>
> secs2d:
>
> time make:
> real    0m11.763s
> user    0m10.929s
> sys     0m0.679s
>
> time make -j4:
> real    0m5.897s
> user    0m19.935s
> sys     0m0.945s
>
> (system is dual core with HT, so this is an example of fully
> parallelizable build)
>
> Anyway, like I said, the speed benefit is only secondary to being able
> to specify proper CFLAGS.
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Good, we should improve the options parsing in pkg.m. This is already
in the wiki.

Can we go back to the scheduling of a "pkg.m improvement code sprint".

Does anyone know a free/libre web-based event scheduling service?
(otherwise we use doodle.com)


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