On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:34 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 12, 3:19 pm, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: >> Running sage -startuptime for various Sage versions 20 times on >> sage.math.washington.edu and taking the average, then doing several >> of these runs and taking the minimum yielded: >> >> VERSION SECONDS >> 4.4 1.2025 >> 4.4.3 1.2956 >> 4.5.2 1.3026 >> 4.5.3 1.3165 >> 4.6 1.4462 >> 4.6.1 1.4440 >> >> Currently, the test sage/tests/startup.py fails very often which is >> quite annoying. Currently the limit is set to 1.5s, William suggested >> to increase it to 2s (and he really wants to keep that test). I could >> do this in 4.6.1. > > Can you make this temporary, going back to 1.5s for Sage 5? Something > like > > from sage.misc.banner import version_dict > if version_dict()['major'] < 5: > time = 2.0 > else > time = 1.5 (or 1.3? we should try to improve things.) > > ... then compare the startup time to the value of 'time' ... > > This way there is some motivation to fix the startuptime problem and > we don't just forget about it.
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