[oe] psyco-dist not supported on 64 bit Linux

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 19:03:21 UTC 2011


On 10/12/2011 12:18 AM, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> On 2011-10-11 01:30, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>> On 2011-10-10 23:35, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:24:18PM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>>>> psyco-dist will not run on a 64 bit linux.
>>>> The guys behind psyco-dist recommends the use of PyPy
>>>>
>>>> What is the recommendation for 64 bit linux?
>>>>
>>>> Just run without JIT?
>>>> Don't run on a 64 bit linux?
>>>> Anything else?
>>> Yes, not supporting 64-bit hosts is one of the known limitations of
>>> psyco.
>>> Being stuck with Python 2.6 is another limitation.
>>>
>>> But, latest bitbake appears to be quite fast even w/o using psyco
>>> these days.
>>> Especially with parallel parsing on multiple cores...
>>>
>>
>> OK, I will try without JIT then.
>>
> Now I have some results.
>
> Building a custom x11 image on a 32 bit Ubuntu 10.10/psyco-dist took 91
> minutes.
> Building the same image on a 64 bit Ubuntu 11.04 without psyco-dist took
> 109 minutes
> (The last machine was an i7-920 w 4 GB RAM)
> The first might be the same, alternatively it was a machine with 6 GB RAM.
>
> = It takes 20% more time on a 64 bit O/S.
>

are these on same hardware running once 32bit or and second time 64bit OS ?
>





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