Svend, I built it on my iMac and it was about the same speed as Windows 7, RHEL 6 VM on Windows 7, and Linux on EC2. Spark is pleasantly easy to build on all of these platforms, which is wonderful.
How long does it take to start spark-shell? Maybe it's a JVM memory setting problem on your Laptop? -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/why-is-Spark-0-9-1-context-creation-so-slow-on-my-OSX-laptop-tp5535p5556.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
