Re: Octave 5.2.0 release

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/16/20 8:40 PM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> On 1/17/20 1:02 AM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> >      Now I think the most fatal regression with SuiteSparse has been wiped
> >      out, thanks to Markus.  A fresh set of 3x3 mxe builds is ready.  Thus we
> >      should start a final regression test period until
> >
> >
> >
> > quick question - are there any specific tests unique to the w64-64
> > versions? should there be?
>
> To my knowledge no.  I think due to the fact, that you need lots of main
> memory (>32 GB) to really test 64-bit indexing with matrices, we do not
> have any yet.

Would it be possible and/or useful to do a few basic tests on a machine 
with a large swap file, and just put up with the slowness from all the 
swapping?

Cheers,
Andrew