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

[Peter Colberg]

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