[petsc-dev] Seeking OLCF users complaining about poor build times

[Jed Brown]

Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

>   Ok, based on what we have so far we need to completely rethink our process, our previous test results are pretty much useless Kill any tests you have outstanding at the moment.
>
>   1) Forget about maint branch!  
>   2) Forget about --download-superlu_dist since it does not have a parallel make
>
>    So we want runs on master with --download-hypre --download-metis --download-parmetis --with-debugging=0 and good optimization flags and proper TMPDIRs, if appropriate, on all systems.

Why download these external packages?  That part should be parallel (if
their build systems handle it; it's a problem we know how to solve in
any case), so it's measuring more-or-less the same thing as PETSc's
build.  I'd rather see stripped-down configure because that is the part
that is characteristically different from PETSc build, and also likely
to show the greatest discrepancy.
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