On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Tim Lahey<tim.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:20 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:51 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> In case anybody wants to try out 64-bit Sage on OS X, I posted a >>> binary here: >>> >>> >>> http://wstein.org/home/wstein/binaries/sage-4.1-OSX-10.5-Intel-64bit-i386-Darwin.dmg >>> >>> Sage almost builds out of the box on 64-bit OS X, except scipy and >>> ratpoints both fail, and >>> one has to install a fortran spkg that supports 64bit. See >>> >>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6493 >>> >>> (I've fixed both scipy and ratpoints, but refereeing is needed.) >>> >>> 64-bit Sage on OS X is *much* faster than 32-bit in many cases, >>> especially code that relies on MPIR (where a 3-times speedup is not >>> unusual). >>> >>> -- William >> >> Moreover, I just tried and the full test suite passes too. Yeah! >> >> The only thing that is in the way of making 64-bit the standard for OS >> X Sage is: >> (1) auto-downloading the gfortran spkg or something >> (2) getting the above two spkg's positively reviewed and into Sage. >> >> Even the notebook works fine now, since we upgraded to python 2.6.x >> (this was a problem before). >> >> If you're an intel OS X user and you haven't got excited about 64-bit >> Sage, why not?!?! >> >> -- William > > > I've been looking forward to it for some time. I'm currently running > the test > suite before I start using it as my regular Sage version. > > Thanks! > > Is there anything specific we need to do for python extensions to get > them > to build in 64-bit if we want to include them in our Sage scripts? >
I think it should "just work", because of the magic of distutils. If you have any trouble, let me know. You should see "-m64" as an option to gcc when extensions are being built. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
