Chris, was the source build "clean", or are you by chance using the system
llvm? (in Make.user)

This looks suspiciously like a "no sysimage" situation, given the time
spent in inference (abstract_eval, typeinf_ext, etc.).

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Elliot Saba <[email protected]> wrote:

> Unfortunately I'm not really sure what could be causing the problem here.
> The best I can think of is to run Julia inside of an external profiler and
> attempt to see what's causing the problem.
> -E
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry about the mistake with 32-bit in my previous message; I read your
>> earlier postings too quickly and misunderstood.
>>
>> I can't compare the output of your Profile.print() to mine, because
>> versioninfo() on my machine runs so fast that it doesn't leave a profile.
>>
>> I also am not able to figure out anything from the printout of @profile
>> versioninfo() that you posted on pastebin because, as far as I can see, the
>> printout does not even show the invocation of versioninfo().  Instead, the
>> profiling appears to contain multiple recursive calls to eval and
>> inferencing routines, which I suppose must be the setting-up portion of
>> profiling before the actual function begins.
>>
>> The only other thing I can think of is: Possibly Julia on your system has
>> been linked against a debug rather than production version of the memory
>> allocator/deallocator?  I think that all the nested calls to eval and
>> inferencing showing up in the profile printout involve millions of calls to
>> the heap allocator.  One way to check this would be to time a function that
>> involves multiple calls to the allocator (say, one that creates arrays in
>> an inner loop) versus a function that involves mostly stack operations
>> (say, a lot of floating point arithmetic).  See how these timings or
>> profiles compare to the timings/profiles of the same functions in a Julia
>> installation that is working properly.
>>
>> -- Steve Vavasis
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 1:26:04 PM UTC-4, Chris wrote:
>>>
>>> (2) Did you try @profile versioninfo() followed by Profile.print()?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The result is very long, but I posted it here:
>>> http://pastebin.com/dBfXmxfy.
>>>
>>> You can try `@time srand("/dev/urandom")` and see how long it takes.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  julia> @time srand("/dev/urandom")
>>> elapsed time: 0.278176012 seconds (15944 bytes allocated)
>>>
>>> julia> @time srand("/dev/urandom")
>>> elapsed time: 0.254156666 seconds (664 bytes allocated)
>>>
>>> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 1:19:03 PM UTC-4, Elliot Saba wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I believe his machine is 64-bit (that's what WORD_SIZE: 64 means in
>>>> versioninfo() above), he merely has 32 cores.  :)
>>>> -E
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am probably the wrong person to help with this since I know next to
>>>>> nothing about the internals of Julia, Linux or intel processors... but let
>>>>> me toss out the following remarks:
>>>>>
>>>>> (1) Your earlier messages state that your processors are 32-bit and
>>>>> yet you are running a 64-bit version of Julia.  Did you try downloading 
>>>>> and
>>>>> testing a 32-bit version of Julia?
>>>>>
>>>>> (2) Did you try @profile versioninfo() followed by Profile.print()?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Steve Vavasis
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 11:29:53 AM UTC-4, Chris wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought so. Is there a different function in 0.3 that will give the
>>>>>> same kind of information? Any other ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 8:16:56 PM UTC-4, Steven G. Johnson
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 8:15:18 PM UTC-4, Chris wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ERROR: RandomDevice not defined
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 6:13:12 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Can you do @time RandomDevice() and see how long that takes?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> RandomDevice() is only in Julia 0.4.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>

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