[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#820220: Bug#820220: Bug#820220: Bug#820220: Bug#820220: Bug#820220: Bug#820220: julia: FTBFS on armel/armhf

[Viral Shah]

LLVM 3.7.1 should have decent performance as we upstreamed various performance patches from the Julia project. However, we still have patches on top of llvm 3.7.1 for getting acceptable performance. However, this is all on the julia master, and not julia 0.4.

-viral



> On 08-Apr-2016, at 9:31 PM, Peter Colberg <peter at colberg.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 09:55:02PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
>> On 8 April 2016 at 21:16, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Why did you switch to 3.8? The default in unstable is 3.6 and in experimental is
>>> 3.7.
>> 
>> I understood there were severe performance regressions with Julia on
>> LLVM > 3.3 that were only fixed in 3.8.
> 
> The reason for switching to LLVM 3.8 was the abysmal performance
> of LLVM 3.7 on i386, and complete failure of LLVM 3.6 or earlier.
> 
> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14191
> 
> Peter
> 
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