If you provide several binaries, I think it would be wise to advertise the lowest common denominator as the "standard" one, so it works for every user.
El miércoles, 14 de diciembre de 2016, 12:59:13 (UTC+1), Erik Bray escribió: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Erik Bray <erik....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi Erik, > >> > >> there are bugs in 7.4 (which is the version your Windows version is > based > >> on, right?) > >> that break SAGE_FAT_BINARY. > >> See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21850 and > >> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21849 > >> and https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21772 > >> > >> Did you backport these? > > > > No, I did not. Thanks for pointing these out--at least one of these > > is the likely culprit then. For example I note in the .debug_info > > section that givaro was built with AVX support, which Peter's CPU does > > not have. I'll backport these fixes and make a new build. > > Perhaps a thing in the future to do will be to provide a "fat" > installer, with different builds of some packages (and only those > packages where it applies) for different CPU architectures. The > easiest thing to do would be to just provide entire separate > installers for different CPUs, and we might start with that. But > really the installer should automatically select the correct binaries > for the target system and users shouldn't have to think about it. > > But first it would be best to see what the demand is like before > putting a lot of effort into it. > > >> On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 11:04:01 AM UTC, Erik Bray wrote: > >>> > >>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Peter Luschny <peter....@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> >> Could you tell me what kind of CPU you have? And remind me, was > this > >>> >> running in a VM (it shouldn't matter but I'm curious)? > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > No, no, it ran on bare iron. > >>> > >>> Okay, so there are at least a few instructions my CPU has that yours > >>> doesn't, such as the SSSE3 instruction set (as opposed to SSE3). > >>> Still hard to narrow it down much though. > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "sage-devel" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > >> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
