On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:07 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > 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.
This wouldn't make sense for the command line version, though one could have a ... "progress bar." I still think we should shoot for < 1 second, which is totally obtainable. > 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. I bet Python already does this for loading modules. - 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
