On 2012-01-21 00:00, RegB wrote: > Do you have a (good) idea of where diminishing returns cuts in ? > I imagine the number of cores (threads) doesn't help much above a > fairly small number due to sequential dependencies ? I'm pretty sure I hit the diminishing returns already. ATLAS and R (both in the critical path) are essentially built serially and together take 22 minutes of the 27 minutes total build time. So you could say that everything *except* for ATLAS and R is neglegible.
> More memory is always "nice to have" but does it really help HERE ? I think it helps a lot because of the file cache. The build almost never has to wait for the disk. > Did you set the atlas_architecture environment variable to cut down on > tuning time ? No. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
