From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add FastTree
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 03:32:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mm1a54i.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55865F2B.7010007@uq.edu.au> (Ben Woodcroft's message of "Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:52:27 +1000")
Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:
> On 21/06/15 14:41, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> Is there any reason to build the single-threaded version? Maybe it
>> would be better to omit it, and call the multi-threaded version
>> FastTree. What do you think?
> I considered this. I have only ever used the multithreaded version,
> but the one advantage of the single-threaded mode is that it is
> deterministic as I understand, where the multi-threaded version is
> not. From the webpage:
>
>> FastTreeMP will not give exactly the same results as FastTree
>> because
> the top-hits heuristics become non-deterministic
>
> Ubuntu has separate fasttree and fasttreeMP for reference.
Okay, makes sense. Applied, thanks!
Mark
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-21 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-19 7:24 [PATCH] Add FastTree Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-19 10:13 ` Alex Kost
2015-06-19 22:30 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-20 5:32 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-20 17:17 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-06-20 23:12 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-21 4:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-06-21 6:52 ` Ben Woodcroft
2015-06-21 7:32 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
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