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Signed-off-by: Jade Turner <[email protected]>
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spacey-sooty committed Dec 11, 2024
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- GTSAM may be configured to use MKL by toggling `GTSAM_WITH_EIGEN_MKL` and
`GTSAM_WITH_EIGEN_MKL_OPENMP` to `ON`; however, best performance is usually
achieved with MKL disabled. We therefore advise you to benchmark your problem
achieved with MKL disabled. We therefore advise you to benchmark your problem
before using MKL.

Tested compilers:
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#### CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX

The install folder. The default is typically `/usr/local/`.
The install folder. The default is typically `/usr/local/`.
To configure to install to your home directory, you could execute:

```cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$HOME ..```

#### GTSAM_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH
#### GTSAM_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH

The Matlab toolbox will be installed in a subdirectory
of this folder, called 'gtsam'.
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#### GTSAM_BUILD_CONVENIENCE_LIBRARIES

This is a build option to allow for tests in subfolders to be linked against convenience libraries rather than the full libgtsam.
This is a build option to allow for tests in subfolders to be linked against convenience libraries rather than the full libgtsam.
Set with the command line as follows:

```cmake -DGTSAM_BUILD_CONVENIENCE_LIBRARIES:OPTION=ON ..```
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ON: When enabled, libgtsam_unstable will be built and installed with the same options as libgtsam. In addition, if tests are enabled, the unit tests will be built as well. The Matlab toolbox will also be generated if the matlab toolbox is enabled, installing into a folder called `gtsam_unstable`.
OFF (Default) If disabled, no `gtsam_unstable` code will be included in build or install.

## Convenience Options:

#### GTSAM_BUILD_EXAMPLES_ALWAYS

Whether or not to force building examples, can be true or false.

#### GTSAM_BUILD_TESTS

Whether or not to build tests, can be true or false.

## Check

`make check` will build and run all of the tests. Note that the tests will only be
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1. Build in `Release` mode. GTSAM will run up to 10x faster compared to `Debug` mode.
2. Enable TBB. On modern processors with multiple cores, this can easily speed up
optimization by 30-50%. Please note that this may not be true for very small
optimization by 30-50%. Please note that this may not be true for very small
problems where the overhead of dispatching work to multiple threads outweighs
the benefit. We recommend that you benchmark your problem with/without TBB.
3. Use `GTSAM_BUILD_WITH_MARCH_NATIVE`. A performance gain of
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