On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mitesh Patel <qed...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/18/2010 02:10 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Niles <nil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> but the test only runs on sage.math, so is it only a bug on >>> sage.math? >> >> Well, that was a lot easier than having some kind of system >> calibration in place for all other computers... > > We *could* try a variation on William's timeit.test: > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/c97d36d23131f4c5/dc3db8fc866211bb?#dc3db8fc866211bb
Yes, that would be useful, though it wouldn't solve the original issue of a passing test becoming flakey before failing completely. > David Kirkby has suggested at #8254 > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8254 > > that disk/filesystem speeds are more important than CPU speeds here. My thoughts as well, though here the goal is to avoid the symptom, whatever the cause. - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
