On Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 4:49:45 PM UTC-5, Timo Kaufmann wrote: > > I really like your wishlist! The all-or-nothing nature of sage and the > slow startup time (although it's actually more like 1.3 seconds with a warm > cache on my machine) are my biggest pain points. >
I've encountered incredibly slow Sage startup times on big clusters due to, I believe, the very slow nature of their distributed file systems and the huge number of files Sage opens at startup. This was several years ago, but at the time Sage took several *minutes* to start on the main campus cluster here at UIUC. I ended up using a smaller cluster for my computations where the startup time was "just" 20 seconds. (I was running things from my home directory rather that trying to convince the admins to install Sage on each node which presumably would have fixed things.) >From the viewpoint of SnapPy, a more modular Sage would be fantastic as it would allow us to have more functionality in the stand-alone version and reduce development effort at the same time. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
