On Apr 1, 2011, at 05:33 , Volker Braun wrote: > Your storage might be slow, too, but I guess you got a reasonable SSD with > your system so that shouldn't be a concern.
I actually have only the standard (7200 rpm) drive, no SSD. > Though I'm not surprised that a significant fraction of the build time is > spent in various (single-threaded) configure scripts. If I exclude ATLAS, I > can build Sage in about 30 minutes. Although I haven't tried to benchmark > it, a good part of it seems to be non-parallelizeable. So there are some > diminishing returns as you throw more cores at it. This is Mac OS X, so Atlas takes ~0.0 seconds to build :-} Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's income ----------- -- They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes, it doesn't work out that way. - Casey Stengel -- -- 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
