On Feb 3, 2021, at 03:29, Eric Borisch wrote:
> This seems off.
>
> Hwloc’s own page talks about the availability of pre-compiled packages, and
> its demos focus on determining what threads to bind to (on OSes where
> explicit binding is possible; last I checked it wasn’t on OSX) if you want to
> maximize or minimize shared resources. (You may want shared L2 cache between
> threads for cooperative tasks, or to put threads on cores with different
> memory busses - and bind memory allocs, too - if your code is burning through
> large, and separable, chunks of memory at max bandwidth.)
>
> It is designed to be used at runtime to provide a uniform (across OSes) way
> to interrogate the running system’s topology.
>
> This is separate from flags like -march which lock in instruction sets which
> will be used — and can create decidedly non-portable binaries.
You can always ask the committer if he has any further explanation.
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/919fd5b27f1ca9c481250203e3dedbac433ecce4
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/f803f507183a2f0e92a0c976afd1ec7a1e0ad923
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/de413f22fba8d3e348ba6fdd21470505101f3dce
