Hi, My name is Ryan. I'm a PhD student in Computer Science, and fedora ambassador/packager. I am really busy academically, so my exposure to the project is limited. In my work within computational topology, I do quite a bit of high performance computing. My current project being the design and implemenation of fast multicore algorithms for a commonly computed mathematical gadget. I've learned quite a bit about how to write good, generic, and extremely fast code.
I'm proposing that we consider a new type of extra software package: foo-profile. This package would be close to a "release" build of software, but, would have options such as "-fno-emit-frame-pointer" enabled. Having stack frame pointers enabled within libraries is extremely valuable for profiling. When you have complex scientific codes it can be challenging to pinpoint from where the symbol __pthread_cond_wait is being hit the most from. On the other hand using a debug compilation means that you can't be sure that you are profiling something at all similar to what happens when you enable optimizations. Thoughts? -rhl -rhl -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
