[sage-devel] sage startup time...

2013-10-27 Thread William Stein
Hi, I think the startup time of Sage may be starting to get out of control again. For example, I'm concerned about some modules called "flask_babel", "pytz" and "uuid", which seem to take a substantial fraction of a second, and should probably be imported at runtime, not at startup. For example,

Re: [sage-devel] sage startup time hasn't improved...

2012-08-12 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Second measurement, best-out-of-10 on sage.math (less loaded than previous time), using /home: sage-4.6: 2.4s sage-4.7: 2.5s sage-4.8: 2.4s sage-5.0.1: 2.0s sage-5.1: 2.1s sage-5.2: 2.7s So, I would say there was a measurable speed-up in sage-5.0 and a more serious slow-down in sage-5.2

Re: [sage-devel] sage startup time hasn't improved...

2012-08-12 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Best-out-of-30 startup times for various versions on sage.math in /home (mounted over NFS): sage-4.6: 2.4s sage-4.7: 2.5s sage-4.8: 2.5s sage-5.0.1: 2.2s sage-5.2: 2.7s It seems sage-5.0 saw an improvement (I guess due to Python-2.7), but it got worse again. I'll try to add some data points betw

Re: [sage-devel] sage startup time hasn't improved...

2012-08-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:51 PM, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sad that on a fast SSD repeatedly doing the following: > > wstein@geom:/usr/local/sage/sage-5.2$ time echo "" | ./sage > -- > | Sage Version 5.2, Release Date: 20

Re: [sage-devel] sage startup time hasn't improved...

2012-08-11 Thread Volker Braun
TRIM is about write performance, it does nothing whatsoever for reading from cache. On Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:56:36 AM UTC-4, Andrea Lazzarotto wrote: > > Did you try to enable TRIM to see if it makes a difference? > -- -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.co

Re: [sage-devel] sage startup time hasn't improved...

2012-08-11 Thread Andrea Lazzarotto
Did you try to enable TRIM to see if it makes a difference? Andrea Lazzarotto (inviato da Android) -- -- 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 gro

Re: [sage-devel] sage startup time hasn't improved...

2012-08-10 Thread Volker Braun
I'm using basically the same mount options on ext4. E.g laptop: /dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered) On Friday, August 10, 2012 10:33:49 PM UTC-4, Benjamin Jones wrote: > > /dev/xvda4 on /home type ext3 > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered) > --

Re: [sage-devel] sage startup time hasn't improved...

2012-08-10 Thread Benjamin Jones
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:51 PM, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sad that on a fast SSD repeatedly doing the following: > > wstein@geom:/usr/local/sage/sage-5.2$ time echo "" | ./sage > -- > | Sage Version 5.2, Release Date: 20

[sage-devel] sage startup time hasn't improved...

2012-08-10 Thread William Stein
Hi, I'm sad that on a fast SSD repeatedly doing the following: wstein@geom:/usr/local/sage/sage-5.2$ time echo "" | ./sage -- | Sage Version 5.2, Release Date: 2012-07-25 | | Type "notebook()" for the brow