Re: [PATCH] Add FastTree

[Mark H Weaver]

Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> writes:

> On 21/06/15 14:41, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> Is there any reason to build the single-threaded version?  Maybe it
>> would be better to omit it, and call the multi-threaded version
>> FastTree.  What do you think?
> I considered this. I have only ever used the multithreaded version,
> but the one advantage of the single-threaded mode is that it is
> deterministic as I understand, where the multi-threaded version is
> not. From the webpage:
>
>> FastTreeMP will not give exactly the same results as FastTree
>> because 
> the top-hits heuristics become non-deterministic
>
> Ubuntu has separate fasttree and fasttreeMP for reference.

Okay, makes sense.  Applied, thanks!

     Mark