On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:32 AM Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote: > > On 2019-01-23 00:11, William Stein wrote: > > I helped support somebody using the Cygwin > > version of Sage on Windows at the Sage booth at the Joint Math > > Meetings last week, and it typically took about 1 minute to start up > > Sage, which was scary. > > But mathematical computations (which do not involve syscalls) shouldn't > be slower, right?
Generally not. If they are multi-process (and hence obviously require system calls to start processes or threads) there is some additional overhead. If the multiprocessing algorithm is using a process pool this is of course an O(1) cost. For straight numerical computations on the CPU there's no major performance problem. -- 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 sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
