On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm fine with removing the timing, but we should test somewhere that lazy
> imports are not accidentally imported during startup. Right now that file
> checks that numpy isn't imported. Though maybe it would be good to move it
> to a better-named file ;-)


I'm fine with removing it, since it doesn't do any good anyways.

I wish Volker's "sage-forker" were used more; that's very useful in some
contexts (I use the same idea a lot in salvus).

 -- William


>
>
> On Monday, January 7, 2013 10:21:53 PM UTC, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
>>
>> The test in devel/sage/sage/tests/startup.**py has been bothering me for
>> a
>> while already.  It's way too unreliable to be useful, it depends too
>> much on the system load (both I/O and CPU).  And system load on
>> sage.math is quite high lately...  Because of this, I tend to ignore
>> this test anyway, so we might as well remove it.
>>
>> I'm all for replacing the test by something more objective which doesn't
>> depend on the phase of the moon, but let's first get rid of the current
>> stupid test.
>>
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