[pypy-dev] FreeBSD 9.2 buildslave: first run

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Tobias Oberstein
<tobias.oberstein at tavendo.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the new FreeBSD buildslave has run the first time:
>
> http://buildbot.pypy.org/builders/pypy-c-jit-freebsd-9-x86-64/builds/6
>
> PyPy was built successfully, but there are a couple of issues:
>
> https://bugs.pypy.org/issue1637
> https://bugs.pypy.org/issue1638
> https://bugs.pypy.org/issue1639
>
> I'll address those.
>
> There is another issue that bugs me .. look at the built times:
>
> [Timer] Timings:
> [Timer] annotate                       ---  576.0 s
> [Timer] rtype_lltype                   --- 1323.7 s
> [Timer] pyjitpl_lltype                 --- 1098.6 s
> [Timer] backendopt_lltype              ---  314.2 s
> [Timer] stackcheckinsertion_lltype     ---  161.5 s
> [Timer] database_c                     ---  451.3 s
> [Timer] source_c                       ---  668.5 s
> [Timer] compile_c                      --- 2403.8 s
> [Timer] ===========================================
> [Timer] Total:                         --- 6997.6 s
>
> and compare with "Linux 64 on allegro64":
>
> [Timer] Timings:
> [Timer] annotate                       ---  641.5 s
> [Timer] rtype_lltype                   --- 1528.5 s
> [Timer] pyjitpl_lltype                 ---  938.7 s
> [Timer] backendopt_lltype              ---  242.2 s
> [Timer] stackcheckinsertion_lltype     ---  206.8 s
> [Timer] database_c                     ---  325.3 s
> [Timer] source_c                       ---  357.7 s
> [Timer] compile_c                      ---  246.4 s
> [Timer] ===========================================
> [Timer] Total:                         --- 4487.1 s
>
> *****
>
> Why the heck does "compile_c" take 10x the time on FreeBSD?
>
> Note that FreeBSD builder uses Clang .. could that be a reason?
>
> Any hints on that are welcome!
>
> Cheers,
> Tobias
>
>
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I would guess because we can't guess the number of processors we don't
parallelize the build correctly.