On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:39 AM, ccandide wrote: > On 5 juin, 05:47, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I'd recommend compiling from source, especially given a processor of >> that age (though it might take quite a while given your clockspeed). > > "a processor of that age" ??? "your clockspeed" ???? Pentium 4 > (1.60GHz) + 512 MB ram is not > hardware for embedded system. This class of machine was very common 5 > years ago. > > Back to Earth : are you aware you can do a lot of algorithmics and > visualisation with a processor 10 times less powerfull ? Remember > Maple V.3 under Windows 3.1 in the middle of the nineties. I use > Maple 10 to illustrate some undergraduate math courses I give so my > needs are very basic : symbolic calculus, linear algebra, plotting > and programming capabilities.
:). Yes, most of my life I have gotten by with computers much less powerful than that--I have even a machine with almost the exact same specs in my front room. However, most Sage development (for better or for worse) is done on newer machines, and binaries are often built with later SSE instructions, etc. We'd like to provide binaries that don't depend on these later instructions (though they would of course be slower on machines that do support them). > It is very unfortunate that Sage has adopted the Microsoft Vista > upgrading Model. > > A suggestion : provide a light version that would meet the needs of > many of the potential Sage users (if not the majority of them). That's actually in the works. Sage should still work fine on such a machine, but compiling the million+ lines of code is a large task. (Should be completely non- interactive, just type make and wait 2-6 hours.) One component of Sage, Linbox, is highly templated C++, and usually requires more than 512MB of RAM, so it'll probably groan and swap a lot there, but other than that you should be fine). Sage has even been successfully compiled and run on an Android phone... - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
