Hey everyone, Last several evenings i was working on a new Linux build environment which is now finished and hooked up to the buildbot.
The new environment is based on Debian Jessie which uses GLibc-2.19. This libc version was released around February 2014, meaning it's 2 years old. In theory all distros newer than that will run new Blender builds just happily. This environment also let us to switch from Gcc-4.7 to Gcc-5.3, which should result in better overall Blender performance. For example, comparing my favorite test from last week which is spatial split BVH building on the agent scene gores down from 106sec to 84sec by just using Blender from a newer libc/gcc. So if your system has libc newer than 2.19 you should totally consider switching to a new builds. Older libc builds will still be supported for as long as there's no technical stoppers for that or we don't have audience of those builds anymore. One more thing, i would love to hear if someone else can confirm measurable speedup on his production files with new builds :) Anyway, that's it for now, Have a nice day! -- With best regards, Sergey Sharybin _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
