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.

+1

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