On Wednesday, August 27, 2014, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:00:49 PM UTC+1, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: >> >> But running the VM surely has a speed penalty because it has to go >>> through that big fat layer of the VM? >>> >> > Virtual machines are extremely fast on somewhat-recent hardware due to > hardware support. Using the gui inside the VM is somewhat slow since it has > to go through the graphics emulation, but if you connect with the OS > browser its probably difficult to notice any speed difference. > > Of course the VM can't be much smaller than this if you want to be able to > develop inside it: > > $ du -sh Sage/ > 5.2G Sage/ > > One remark: that gets knocked almost in half if you use a compressed filesystem (btrfs or ZFS) like I do with SageMathCloud... > -- > 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 [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org [email protected] -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
