On 04/20/2015 07:52 PM, Thierry wrote:
> Sage Debian Live 6.6 is out and is accessible from Sage mirrors. The only
> change from 6.5 is that the Sage binary is built on a Pentium 3, hence
> without SSE2 support, so it is possible that some computation involving
> floating-point arithmetics get slower.

Well, if that's a fat binary build, at least MPIR (and hence also MPFR,
MPC etc.) will partially use SSE2 and SSE3 when available.


> The reason of this change is related to this thread:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/sage-devel/8MYGxWQBEzs
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel/79116
> I used to use a genuine 32bit hardware for this but since the build was
> stuck on 6.6, i then used a VM that i use for Debian/Ubuntu binaries.

A while ago, I did build Sage on a (700 MHz IIRC) Pentium III with just
128 or 256 MB RAM, with a SATA2-attached SSD (also or just, I don't
recall, containing the swap partition), which went surprisingly fast.


-leif

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