Nick Gasson

> The Billiwitch and Ashenden tests are good, but they did not cover all that was intended. I updated and finished those tests so that the ieee standards they test,...

Do you mean the FPHDL tests or something else? I'm aware of a set of tests from David Bishop here: https://github.com/FPHDL/fphdl/blob/master/vhdl2008test.zip

@Blebowski can you provide some instructions for running the testbench? I found a `run.py` in that repository but looks like it needs some additional arguments.

Can you trying setting the environment variable `NVC_MAX_THREADS=1` with `-p$(nproc)`? NVC will create up to 8 background threads for JIT compilation which is probably too many here. Another combination to...

The `reference_data_set_*` packages take a long time to compile. I think the difference with GHDL is that the GCC/LLVM backends compile these packages once whereas NVC is generating code for...

Please also try with the VUnit changes in #1037.

Have you tried using a smaller number of concurrent jobs like `-p 10`? In my testing with current NVC/VUnit master it's faster than ghdl-gcc on all `-p` values up to...

Are you using a build with `--enable-debug`? There's at least a 2x slow-down for elaboration with that on due to extra checking. > The shortest "Elapsed time" is with 14...

I don't want to add and support too many non-standard features. You should be able to do this through a VHPI plugin, which would also have the advantage of being...

Can you give some examples of the warnings you want suppress and/or those you want to escalate?