InsightToolKit did not build

Frank J. R. Hanstick trog24 at comcast.net
Fri Jan 1 21:01:05 PST 2010


Hello,
	I am not going to ask you to build on the 466 MHz, that might take  
you to until the next decade.
	Sounds like Apple needs to do a little work on the intel scheduler.   
Even running with both cpu's at or near 100% (which means a faster bus  
would not buy me very much since I am getting 100% cpu usage at a 13:1  
cpu:bus ratio), I only notice a slowdown when trying to launch new  
applications.  Once up and running, there is not much difference in  
response time.  PPC G4's range between 1.25 to 1.5 the throughput rate  
of equivalent Intel cpu's due to an average of 1.8 (maximum of 3)  
completed instructions per clock cycle.  You have a 2.75:1 cpu:bus  
ratio, so I wonder what the hold up is.
	I think I might need a faster bus if I could get a hold of dual core  
e600's (the inside of my PPC 7448) which Freescale does not make.   
Right now they only make a single core e600 µ-Processor and a dual  
core e600 µ-Controller.

On Jan 1, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Jan 1, 2010, at 20:08, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
>
>> It is not very encouraging that it took so long your system.  I  
>> only have a dual 1.73 GHz PowerPC G4 on a 133 MHz bus (I am  
>> assuming you have a dual core intel with a faster bus) and 1 MB  
>> RAM.  Disk space is not a problem (165 GB available).
>
> Yes, my MacBook Pro has an 800-MHz bus and two cores, but I  
> instructed MacPorts to only use one of them ("sudo port install  
> InsightToolkit build.jobs=1") because using both cores for this  
> build was making the machine too slow for other tasks.
>
>> This is the fourth time that I hit the same error.  I am wondering  
>> of the problem is trying to build to a PPC G4.  I am going to take  
>> a quick look at the source code (downloaded itk via CVS from the  
>> site) after filing a bug report.
>
> Yes, it's certainly possible that the port doesn't work on PowerPC.  
> I haven't tested it. My 466-MHz Power Mac G4 would probably take a  
> week to finish the build so I'm not keen to try it...
>

Frank J. R. Hanstick
trog24 at comcast.net



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