Running these tests gives some information, but it is probably a little
hard to interpret. On a fresh boot, sage will take roughly 18 seconds to
start up on my machine. Subsequent runs, however, take roughly 1.8
seconds, typically.
This is all dependent on many things that the operating system doe
> 1) Sun Blade 2000, circa 2000
> 2 x 900 MHz UltraSPARC III+ CPUs
> Load average 1 (Sorry, I'm doing something and can't stop that)
> 1x 147 GB Seagate SEAGATE-ST3146807FC. 15,000 rpm SCSI with a 2 Gbit/s fibre
> channel interface.
> Sage version 4.3.3 with patches for Solaris as documented
2) Macbook Pro, circa 2009
2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Fairly loaded (Activity Monitor reports about 70% idle CPU, 635MB/4GB free
memory)
But the conclusion seems fairly clear.
Median time of 5 runs:
real0m2.390s
Maximum of the 5 runs:
real0m22.064s
The maximum was first, and afterward all
Ticket http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8254
"sage takes way too long to startup"
seems to irritate a lot of people. It does not me too much, but I feel one way
to at least start to tackle this probably is to get some quantifiable data and
see where the time is being spent. My hunch i
