[sage-devel] Re: Review request (issue with MPN_ZERO on t2)

2009-07-17 Thread Bill Hart
Great, I will try to do this tomorrow. Thanks. Bill. 2009/7/18 Dr. David Kirkby : > Bill Hart wrote: > >> In retrospect, I think your patch is the right way to go, and I'd have >> no issue with using a later gcc (4.3.1 or later) on T2. The most >> important thing which needs to be done is to fi

[sage-devel] Re: Review request (issue with MPN_ZERO on t2)

2009-07-17 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: > In retrospect, I think your patch is the right way to go, and I'd have > no issue with using a later gcc (4.3.1 or later) on T2. The most > important thing which needs to be done is to fix the ATLAS issue, then > someone can begin to test some of these patches you have been com

[sage-devel] Re: Review request (issue with MPN_ZERO on t2)

2009-07-17 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: > Ah, we are talking about the same thing I think. > > How silly to pollute the namespace with another macro with the same > name, especially as MPFR and GMP/MPIR are sister projects. But I am > guessing this is not an exported symbol but only used internally. > > That means all

[sage-devel] Re: Review request (issue with MPN_ZERO on t2)

2009-07-17 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: > 2009/7/17 Dr. David Kirkby : >> The build speed problem is due to ATLAS. Here is the list of packages >> currently built on t2 (it's building now). Look at the times between them >> What you may notice is a huge time between lapack-20071123.p0 @ 2315 and >> atlas-3.8.3.p5 @

[sage-devel] Re: Review request (issue with MPN_ZERO on t2)

2009-07-17 Thread Willem Jan Palenstijn
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 06:46:31PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > That could be reduced dramatically if we could save the temporary files > it builds, produce a set of tuning values for the sun4v architecture, > then ATLAS would not need to be tuned every time. But despite trying, > and askin

[sage-devel] Re: Review request (issue with MPN_ZERO on t2)

2009-07-17 Thread Bill Hart
2009/7/17 Dr. David Kirkby : > Bill Hart wrote: >> >> This sage ticket 6453 is too hard. It actually looks like a "bug" in MPIR >> to me. > > Hi, > > I copied this to sage-devel too. > >> The only way to test David Kirkby's fix on T2 it is to do sage -sh and >> then run the spkg-install, etc. > >>

[sage-devel] Re: Review request (issue with MPN_ZERO on t2)

2009-07-17 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: > This sage ticket 6453 is too hard. It actually looks like a "bug" in MPIR to > me. Hi, I copied this to sage-devel too. > The only way to test David Kirkby's fix on T2 it is to do sage -sh and > then run the spkg-install, etc. > That means I'd need my own version of sage bu