> Personally I have a bit of a problem understanding why I need to
> worry about a program starting up in less than 2 s, when I might run
> something on it which will take at least one order of magnitude
> longer, and probably several order of magnitudes longer.
I can only say why it matters for me:
mar...@rubey-laptop:~/lib/fricas/target/i686-pc-linux/bin$ time echo "2+2" |
./AXIOMsys
Checking for foreign routines
AXIOM=NIL
spad-lib="/lib/libspad.so"
FriCAS (AXIOM fork) Computer Algebra System
Version: FriCAS 2010-01-08
Timestamp: Monday February 22, 2010 at 13:22:25
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Issue )copyright to view copyright notices.
Issue )summary for a summary of useful system commands.
Issue )quit to leave FriCAS and return to shell.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) -> Warning: HyperTeX macro table not found
(1) 4
Type: PositiveInteger
(2) ->
real 0m0.797s
user 0m0.404s
sys 0m0.076s
mar...@rubey-laptop:~/Documents/sage-4.1.1-linux-Ubuntu_9.04-i686-Linux$ time
echo "2+2;" | ./sage
----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sage Version 4.1.1, Release Date: 2009-08-14 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Loading Sage library. Current Mercurial branch is: combinat
sage: sage:
Exiting SAGE (CPU time 0m0.26s, Wall time 0m0.84s).
real 0m18.403s
user 0m5.144s
sys 0m1.304s
Martin
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