[gambit-list] gambit 4.6.4 taking long time to compile blackhole

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Feb 15 16:36:17 EST 2012


On 2012-02-15, at 4:32 PM, Álvaro Castro-Castilla wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying gambit 4.6.4 under Ubuntu 32bits, 64 bits and Gentoo 64 bits. It compiles fine in these systems. However:
> 
> - Ubuntu 32 bits: fails to compile blackhole, with an out of memory error
> - Ubuntu 64 bits: compiles, but on a 16gb ram machine.
> - Gentoo 64 bits: uses all 4gb of ram and takes forever using swap. I didn't finish compiling, because taking that long makes it impossible to develop Blackhole.
> 
> I've read in the git commits that now the default flag is -O2, could this be the reason?

It could.  Please modify the configure script so that it uses -O1 and check if that works better.  I would be interested in the time both ways, and the version of your gcc.

Marc




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