Ethan Mahintorabi

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> You personally pushed for the inclusion of gpuSolver.cu and said its was valuable as a template for future development. Shall we delete it? I was never in favor. I...

The feeling I get is that it's "open" not "open source". All the presentations mention that it will be available in ECOS which is their web based iEDA environment. I...

@maliberty Maybe we should add a feature to compare the congestion values between two runs?

This seems like an Arch specific issue. You can turn off tests in cmake with -DENABLE_TESTS=OFF https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#%22Failed_to_commit_transaction_(conflicting_files)%22_error

The root of the problem if you look inside OpenSTA's code is that in order to provide determinism STA uses ordered maps to keep track of verticies, and used getId()...

@gadfort mentioned to me that this is a well known routing technique in many tools

We could turn the existing swap code into a library and use it in the router. https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD/blob/9c48043f22892927d3f6b6c492be440fc8a4cdb9/src/rsz/src/RepairSetup.cc#L638

You do it with the build tagging system --stamp I mentioned earlier. You just run --nostamp in everything except a special --config=release mode.