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Extended Memory Semantics - Persistent shared object memory and parallelism for Node.js and Python
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setup script #7

Closed TrejGun closed 8 years ago

TrejGun commented 8 years ago

Hi there! I was tried to setup your project and found out docs are a bit tangled, so here are some changes to make it more easy

Hope you will find this usefull

mogill commented 8 years ago

Hi Trej!

Thanks so much for the npm/travis help -- obviously that stuff is not my forte. I much prefer to spend time on the cache coherency, memory controller, and OS aspects of EMS; some parts don't get as much attention as they deserve.

I used almost everything in your commit but I also changed EMS' defaults so root permission wasn't required to run any tests or examples, and I was able to remove the sudo's everywhere.

Please note I checked in an important bug fix today, so you'll definitely want to pull. Thanks again for your help, it's valuable time-saving and clue-giving -- greatly appreciated.

                -J
TrejGun commented 8 years ago

Hi Jace

i'm happy i was able to help with your project

i have checked what exactly you merged and have a suggestion Install via GitHub sections still says

cd Examples/
mkdir -p node_modules
cd node_modules/
ln -s ../.. ems
cd ../

but you don't need to have a link to the root dir because 

sudo npm link ../ems

is almost same as

npm install -g ems

so ems will be available in Examples

TrejGun commented 8 years ago

@mogill, guess you missed last comment)

mogill commented 8 years ago

Sorry I didn't reply sooner, while I once worked on EMS full-time, I'm only able to work on it part-time now.

I left that blurb in there mostly for my reference -- I avoid installing EMS globally because as a developer I've had compilation fail and npm silently reverts to using the wrong version of EMS.

I have removed that section since as you note, it's redundant and mainly applies to me, but I did not yet commit it because I have also been updating other README sections and running benchmarks (nice speedups since two years ago). I'm hoping to work in it some more tonight.

Thanks for being patient when I can't get around to simple things quickly.

mogill commented 8 years ago

Today I finally got around to finishing the README cleanup with new benchmarking -- all your stuff got in there.

My next task is to finish the OOP API, then use that to implement the Python API. I really appreciate your continued help pointing out when things go astray.