[isabelle-dev] NEWS: isabelle build performance tuning

2016-10-17 Thread Makarius
*** System *** * The command-line tool "isabelle build" supports option -N for cyclic shuffling of NUMA CPU nodes. This may help performance tuning on Linux servers with separate CPU/memory modules. * The system option "threads" (for the size of the Isabelle/ML thread farm) is also passed to the

[isabelle-dev] NEWS: SSH and Mercurial support in Isabelle/Scala

2016-10-17 Thread Makarius
*** System *** * Isabelle/Scala: the SSH module supports ssh and sftp connections, for remote command-execution and file-system access. This resembles operations from module File and Isabelle_System to some extent. Note that Path specifications need to be resolved remotely via ssh.remote_path inst