Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of compiling

Timestamp:

Jun 2, 2009, 3:52:42 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

jweil

Comment:

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compiling

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 This sets the level for floating point exceptions, which can be 0-3, where FPE=3 means none and FPE=0 means all. FPE=3 is the default. This flag is only supported with ifort and gfortran.
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+== Parallel Make ==
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+If you have a multi-core machine, you can speed up the compilation process by specifying the number of cores that are available on your system. E.g. on a quad-code machine you could do
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+{{{
+make -j4
+}}}
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+This can potentially be up to four times faster than the standard single-threaded make ("-j1"), since four files can be compiled in parallel.