On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 19, 7:27 pm, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: >> (except for devel/sage/sage/tests/startup.py which is a stupid test IMHO) > > I have to agree with this.
There are many (important) potential users who do not use Sage at all just because the startup time is so bad. It's really unfortunate how much I let the startup time of Sage slip over the years. Sorry. The startup-by-forking demo that Jeroen wrote is really an awesome way of partly attacking this problem... -- William > Or at least it would be nice if this > doctest printed out the actual return value of that timer so we could > see whether it was failing by milliseconds or by hours. Two of my > patches are currently failed by the patchbot due only to this single > doctest, and the patches are just adding something to the docs and > adding a new graph to Sage's named graphs collection, respectively, > which shouldn't appreciably affect the startup time, I think... > > -Keshav > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
