I have an i7, an SSD, and plenty of RAM, and Tensorflow has been compiling for over 80 minutes now. Is there a site where people can report their specs and compile times for popular programs?

I know it still will vary a lot, but it helps to have a ballpark for how long it'll take to compile.

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musou wrote on June 2, 2018 at 12:27 AM

i haven't tried compiling tensorflow but i'll give it a shot this weekend and let you know

twovests OP wrote on June 2, 2018 at 12:45 AM

jstpst becomes a bastion of compile times

people from the future will compile tensorflow just for laughs, comparing them to our ancient compile times

vriska is there

cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote on June 2, 2018 at 1:22 AM (edited on June 2, 2018 at 1:22 AM)

"OoooOOOOoo, on my new iPhone 62, Tensorflow compiled in just four minutes!" the future humans will coo.

rizzines wrote on June 2, 2018 at 7:49 PM

If there's iphones in the future we're doomed.

bunnies wrote on June 2, 2018 at 3:35 AM

you should have been there when we were running gentoo on our athlon xp's in the early 00's "oh you want to try that neat pdf viewer LET'S COMPILE ALL OF QT AND KDE FOR THE NEXT 4 HOURS LOL"

twovests OP wrote on June 2, 2018 at 2:31 PM

i have thoroughly happy that i very rarely have any need to compile something from source

that said, i dual boot so it's good to be able to give someone an estimate. "yeah i can play games in like 2 hours" vs "yeah i can play in like 3 days"

twovests OP wrote on June 1, 2018 at 11:28 PM (edited on June 1, 2018 at 11:29 PM)

http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/~yliu120/tensorflow.html

Someone needed 15 minutes on 28 CPUs. I have 4 CPUs, so I should expect to take around 1 hour 45 minutes to 2 hours.

As I was typing that, it finished around the 1 hour 30 minute mark.

INFO: Elapsed time: 5282.233s, Critical Path: 179.62s
INFO: 3136 processes, local.
INFO: Build completed successfully, 3627 total actions

for the curious

cute_spider_ni_srsly wrote on June 2, 2018 at 1:23 AM (edited on June 2, 2018 at 1:24 AM)

jeez golly ms molly, that is one complex compiling process.

high performance numerical computation.

no fuckin doubt.

hollyhoppet wrote on June 2, 2018 at 5:43 AM

if you think that's bad you should have seen what it was like to compile openoffice in 2005

flabberghaster wrote on June 3, 2018 at 4:19 AM

I had.to do a git bisect on a kernel a while ago for a gub report.

Compile the linux kernel, install it, reboot. Did it work? Then keep doing that. Like seven times.