Hello Jorge,
Hope all is well.Its fine, thanks. How are you? ;-)
Thank you for your tests. I have made a couple of tests on my own and the results was pretty similar to your. As I said it was only couple of tests but on reative big data (human genome about 100 GB gzipped).
My question is: Have you used HDD or SSD? I have used HDD, for SSD it is possible that differences in time may be bigger. I will try to test it for SSD.
I spoke with Sebastian today and we agree that it is a good option to make compilation without asmlib possible. I will deal with this and I let you know when it is ready.
KMC in current version has also "boost" dependency, but we think to go native, because g++ supports c++11 threads. Other functionalities from "boost" that we use are easy to replace with c++11. It should make compilation time shorter for the ones who hasn't "boost" installed.
In one of earlier e-mails you asked about Agner (asmlib author):Do you think it would make sense for me to approach him through the Debian Med team?We would prefer to deal with it on our own.
If there is something I ommited and I didn't answer to any of your questions please let me know.