On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Robert Bradshaw < rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
> Hasn't this been discussed several times already? I consider startup time > to be one of our biggest bugs... If we need to, lets bump it to 4 or even > 10 seconds or something so at least we don't have egregious regressions. Or > replace it with something better (e.g. it only fails if the load is so > small, or looks at user time, or time(startup) < time(0.0x * sage > -testall)). > > Maybe I should buy a computer just for this test, and call it startup.math.washington.edu... :-) > > 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 ;-) >> >> >> 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. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. > > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
