On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 :)
Are you using a binary install, or did you build from source? If you're using a binary install of sage, cloning for the first time rebuilds the entire sage library on top of cloning it. The subsequent ones are much faster though. didier > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
