[Pkg-julia-devel] julia 0.4.1 on ppc64el

[Peter Colberg]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 08:24:53AM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> I built the julia 0.4.1-2 package on a MiniCloud [1] instance after
> backporting all of the pre-requisites.  The instance came
> pre-installed with Ubuntu 15.04.
> 
> The tests seem to run rather slowly, but I think that is dependent on
> the load on the host.
>         From worker 3:       * linalg/qr             in 16980.20 seconds

That test took almost 5 hours(!), compared to ~ 1 minute on amd64.

Let’s see how the 0.4.2-2 unstable build goes on ppc64el.

You might want to try backporting llvm 3.7.1 (just uploaded today).

Peter