Greetings! Here is a piece of a post regarding difficulties compiling atlas on arm I recently submitted to the atlas mailing list. I'd appreciate any thoughts.
============================================================================= > 4) (longer term) I've been unable to compile atlas on arm for years. > The rusage cpu timer is dysfunctional, and -DWALL gives > unrepeatable timings which can't be boiled down within tolerance. > The floating point performance by default is ridiculous when > compared to the speed of the cpu (possibly the real source of these > problems), and I can only surmise that in its minimal configuration > floating point is emulated. > > Later generations of the cpu with > vector floating point instructions and respectable performance > appear to exist as well. ARM chips underly (most?) Linux pda's. > > I'm just putting this out in case someone knows this arch, can fill > in the details, and suggest a possible atlas strategy for a distro > like Debian. We already have the infrastructure to toggle between > subarch optimized builds at runtime. ============================================================================= Take care, -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
