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10 years ago

Quartus compiles slow in Arch Linux

Recently I found out that Quartus II 15.0 compiles really slow in Arch Linux. A nearly empty cyclone IV project took ~4 min to compile While the same project took about 30sec to compile in Windo...
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10 years ago

Thank you for the interesting solution...

Turn off the internet connection indeed make it run fast...

I suspect it is a software bug.

A practical workaround may be run quartus in unshare http://linux.die.net/man/1/unshare to block internet connection...

But if you are using an ip license, quartus_asm must be run with internet, or else no .sof file would be generated.

Hope quartus could fix the bug soon.