I agree about your point on correctness -- do you know of any known correctness issues with Ninja?
These build times seem to be NOT with GPU builds and distributed kvstore enabled -- could you please confirm? nvcc builds take a significant time. Bhavin Thaker. On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > For me it's more about correctness and reproducibility than build > times, nonetheless, seems that the ninja build is significantly faster > than the Make build: > > Make: > > real 4m32.779s > user 43m33.236s > sys 0m52.940s > > CMake + Ninja: > > real 3m30.794s > user 36m2.564s > sys 0m56.368s > > Compiled on an g3.4xlarge with ebs > > Provisioned IOPS SSD > > io (115000 iops) > > > Pedro. > > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Bhavin Thaker <bhavintha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Pedro, > > > > Using Ninja to improve build times is a good suggestion. Can you share > the > > build times you have observed with and without using Ninja? I presume you > > have enabled compile-time options for GPU builds and Distributed MXNet > for > > the builds you have experimented with. > > > > See also: > > https://ninja-build.org/manual.html > > > > Thanks, > > Bhavin Thaker. > > > > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Pedro Larroy < > pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I would like to update the MXNet build instructions. > >> > >> In particular I was thinking that it would be a good idea to update > >> the instructions to use CMake + Ninja. And add more information about > >> the different build flavours. > >> > >> > >> https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/index.html > >> > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> >
