On Apr 1, 2011, at 05:33 , Volker Braun wrote:

> Your storage might be slow, too, but I guess you got a reasonable SSD with 
> your system so that shouldn't be a concern.

I actually have only the standard (7200 rpm) drive, no SSD.

> Though I'm not surprised that a significant fraction of the build time is 
> spent in various (single-threaded) configure scripts. If I exclude ATLAS, I 
> can build Sage in about 30 minutes. Although I haven't tried to benchmark 
> it, a good part of it seems to be non-parallelizeable. So there are some 
> diminishing returns as you throw more cores at it.

This is Mac OS X, so Atlas takes ~0.0 seconds to build :-}

Justin

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