On 21 February 2011 06:20, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are many (important) potential users who do not use Sage at all > just because the startup time is so bad. It's really unfortunate > how much I let the startup time of Sage slip over the years. Sorry.
> William Stein I feel very sorry for anyone that would not use a useful bit of software because it takes a few seconds longer to start than they would expect for software. If I want to do a few quick calculations, the command I run is: $ bc -l as the 'bc' calculator starts almost instantly - quicker even than Mathematica. Perhaps "startup time" should be added to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_algebra_systems though perhaps Wikipedia would consider that "original research". Of course it would be nice for Sage not to take too long to start, but one would have to be pretty sad to reject a piece of software on the basis of how long it takes to start. Dave -- 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 group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
