#10295: Upgrade and optimize pexpect
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       Reporter:  SimonKing          |        Owner:  was
           Type:  enhancement        |       Status:  needs_review
       Priority:  major              |    Milestone:  sage-6.10
      Component:  interfaces         |   Resolution:
       Keywords:  pexpect upgrade    |    Merged in:
        Authors:  François Bissey,   |    Reviewers:  Jeroen Demeyer
  Bill Page, Jeroen Demeyer          |  Work issues:
Report Upstream:  Reported           |       Commit:
  upstream. No feedback yet.         |  f0523e41eb491c0589c230973229cfeb2123dccd
         Branch:                     |     Stopgaps:
  u/jdemeyer/pexpect3.3              |
   Dependencies:  #19671             |
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Comment (by leif):

 Replying to [comment:148 jdemeyer]:
 > Replying to [comment:144 bpage]:
 > > Do you have timings before and after for the full Sage test suite or
 at least those parts of it that exercise most of the functionality
 associated with those other parts of Sage besides gap that use external
 components via pexpect?
 >
 > See [attachment:old-pexpect.log] and [attachment:new-pexpect.log] for
 the output of
 > {{{
 > ./sage -t --optional=sage src/sage/interfaces/*.py*
 src/sage/interfaces/*.py* src/sage/interfaces/*.py*
 src/sage/interfaces/*.py* src/sage/interfaces/*.py*
 > }}}
 > (test all files in `src/sage/interfaces` 5 times).
 >
 > The total time of those tests is (I'm not claiming that anything is
 statistically significant):
 >
 > old:
 > {{{
 > Total time for all tests: 378.2 seconds
 >     cpu time: 86.5 seconds
 >     cumulative wall time: 365.2 seconds
 > }}}
 >
 > new:
 > {{{
 > Total time for all tests: 360.3 seconds
 >     cpu time: 93.6 seconds
 >     cumulative wall time: 347.1 seconds
 > }}}

 So the CPU time increased by a significant amount, which is bad...

 (Not sure how reliable the figures at all are.)

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