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[R-pkg-devel] [[openmx-dev]] Re: [[openmx-dev]] Re: openmp

2 messages · Joshua N Pritikin, Mark van der Loo

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:57:05AM -0700, Zhian Kamvar wrote:
Yes, of course, but you're missing the point of my enquiry. My question 
is whether it is possible for CRAN to build and distribute openmp 
enabled binaries.
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At least on linux, CRAN builds using openMP. I got a valgrind report once
[shame on me btw] showing that 9 (out of 10) threads were running examples.


So my best guess is that it will do the same for Windows since it also has
openMP support according to WRE[1].  I wouldn't know why not, except for
the reasons Dirk already mentioned. It will not do this for OS X since WRE
states clearly that

OS X nowadays uses clang, and the Apple builds currently have no OpenMP
support.

so if nobody has openMP support on OS X, for sure CRAN doesn't have it.
/M

[1]https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#OpenMP-support



Op ma 24 aug. 2015 om 19:04 schreef Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com>: