William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Jason Grout > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:14 PM, mabshoff >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Oct 21, 2:14 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> William Stein wrote: >>>> <SNIP> >>>> >>>>>> When I have Pentium M binaries, you'll be set to use those, and this >>>>>> will be soon, given my new hardware. >>>>> Wow, what sort of "new" hardware are you getting that are Pentium M's? >>>> It isn't new, it is an old laptop that William used to build Sage >>>> binaries with until one day compiling ATLAS killed it :) >>> Yep. It's a laptop I bought at Harvard in 2004, which broke (building >>> Sage), and which sat on my shelf for a year, but which I "newly" >>> fixed. >>> It's a Thinkpad T40. >> Ah. Mine is an A31, which has a Pentium M, but apparently a newer one >> that has SSE2, according to /proc/cpuinfo. According to >> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T40, the T40 also has SSE2 (in >> fact, has a newer chip than my laptop). So your binaries may not help >> after all in this case, since apparently SSE2 could be a problem. > > Thanks for looking this up; you're no doubt right. > > I guess the original posted will absolutely have to build > Sage from binary to get something that is 100% solid. > > Note that using the vmware image (as somebody suggested) > won't help by the way, since it also has sse2, etc., as I just > checked. It says: > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx lm > constant_tsc up pni ds_cpl cx16 lahf_lm
Huh, based on the /proc/cpuinfo on my virtualbox image, it seems that the image identifies the processor as the actual processor on the box (so I have sse2 in my virtualbox image as well). Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
