Martin Rubey wrote:
Personally I have a bit of a problem understanding why I need to
worry about a program starting up in less than 2 s, when I might run
something on it which will take at least one order of magnitude
longer, and probably several order of magnitudes longer.
I can only say why it matters for me:
<SNIP>
mar...@rubey-laptop:~/Documents/sage-4.1.1-linux-Ubuntu_9.04-i686-Linux$ time echo
"2+2;" | ./sage
----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sage Version 4.1.1, Release Date: 2009-08-14 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Loading Sage library. Current Mercurial branch is: combinat
sage: sage:
Exiting SAGE (CPU time 0m0.26s, Wall time 0m0.84s).
real 0m18.403s
user 0m5.144s
sys 0m1.304s
Martin
OK, 18 s is a bit more significant. 1.5 s I have a bit more of a problem with
worrying about.
I'm going to start another thread on this specific issue of startup time.
Dave
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