On 09/17/2010 04:08 AM, Mike Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> 
> wrote:
>> I do not like the sage/tests/startup.py test (which tests, only on
>> sage.math.washington.edu, that Sage starts up in 1.5 seconds).  I
>> regularly get non-reproducible failures in this doctest.  As far as I'm
>> concerned, that test can simply be removed.
> 
> Or, an alternative to just removing the test is to make it so that
> Sage starts up faster so that the test doesn't fail.  Something like
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6494 is a step in that
> direction.

We could also use Robert Bradshaw's lazy_import in other places in the
Sage library:

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8456
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8254

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