On 7-May-08, at 11:14 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > In Section 7.1 of the Sage Programming Guide, it says > >> Creating clones of a repository should be fairly fast, e.g., about >> 30 seconds. > > I just installed a fresh copy of Sage on my Mac and ran 'sage -clone > blah', and it took almost 15 minutes to complete. Running 'sage -clone > temp' a second time took just over one minute. Neither of these, and > especially not the first one, is "about 30 seconds".
Cloning a repository is limited by your disk's throughput and latency. Your second run is working with a primed disk cache -- this says a lot about your disk's random access :) > This is on a 2.4 GHz Mac Book Pro. I have a similar machine and cloning is reasonably snappy. I had an older Powerbook and the disk was ridiculously slow. You might find mercurial queues lets you work with fewer clones. Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
