Maximizing assembly performance

Use the following tips to obtain the best performance from the Shasta assembler.

• If you are using the Shasta executable (the simplest and recommended option), use the following options to allocate memory on 2MB huge pages mapped to the hugetlbfs filesystem. However, this requires root privilege to be obtained via sudo. Depending on your sudo set up, this may ask for your password, or fail.

  --memoryMode filesystem --memoryBacking 2M

• Don't use macOS or Windows. Use a 64-bit Linux system instead. The Shasta executable runs on most current 64-bit Linux distributions and requires no set up or installation.