Bug#756392: enable SIMD and threading support

2014-07-29 Thread Elmar Pruesse
Package: raxml Version: 7.2.8-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the current RAxML package contains only the vanilla version of RAxML compiled without support threading or SIMD. Given that typical use cases of RAxML require days of computation, enabling parallel processing would improve the

Bug#729537: Bug#756392: enable SIMD and threading support

2014-07-29 Thread Andreas Tille
[Robert, sorry for the long silence to bug #729537. While we now have more recent versions of RAxML in Debian the sse3-pthreads hint of yours was not regarded but may be since this is now on the table you might like to have some word about it as well.] Hi, I tried to implement Elmar's hint

Bug#729537: Bug#756392: enable SIMD and threading support

2014-07-29 Thread Elmar Pruesse
However, when thinking about, users might be used to call raxmlHPC and thus the wrapper should get this name and we could throw away the result of Makefile.gcc. Is this correct or not? Sounds about right. Is there any possibility that the vanilla raxmlHPC might be used under some