[petsc-dev] configure default to --with-etags=0 ?

Jed Brown jed at jedbrown.org
Mon Sep 8 15:57:58 CDT 2014


Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> Hm - 18 sec on my linux laptop and (a new) ssd. [I wonder why the difference]

Don't know.  I use btrfs over dm-crypt (twofish-xts-plain).

> wrt es - perhaps the PATHs are longer [and they mostly point to nfs
> software] and thats affecting the run time. But I've seen multiple
> minutes spent on etags on various machines..
>
> When we added these defaults - primary 'repo' users were
> developrs. But now we want big chunk of our users to use repos. And
> also for ourselves we are now switching between branches - and these
> files are generated more frequently. So those initial assumptions
> [when we made these things default] are not really valid anymore..

I use GNU Global so I have no use for etags.
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