On 1 March 2011 15:38, daly <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote: > Sage could follow the same technique used by Gimp. > Gimp loads a huge number of files at startup and can > take over a minute to start on small systems. They > have a startup splash screen that shows the files > which are being loaded. That way the user sees progress > during startup.
I personally find Sage starts a lot quicker than Gimp, but perhaps this depends on ones system. Sage is taking 21 s to start on my laptop (dual core 2.0 GHz), compared to Mathematica's 7 seconds. I don't have Gimp on here. On my workstation at home (3.33 GHz quad core Xeon) Sage is taking only a few seconds. Is it possible to open these files read-only? I don't know if that could save time on any file systems? I could image on something like NFS, it could be potentially quicker if the system does not have to consider the possibility Sage might modify the files. Dave -- 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
