How to speed up running SageMath programs

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asked 2016-08-19 13:03:14 +0100

Erel Segal-Halevi
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I am writing a SageMath program that I want to run from within the editor (I use Atom editor, with a plugin that enables me to run sage). Whenever I run a script, it takes about 1.5 seconds, even if the script only writes "hello world". In contrast, when I run the same script using Python, it takes only 0.04 seconds.

is there a way to run SageMath scripts faster?

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answered 2016-08-19 13:12:52 +0100

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A possible reason could be that your plugin starts (a new session of) SageMath each time you run the script. And SageMath is very long to start (1 to 2 seconds on my laptop). Actually, this happens for instance if you invoke sage myscript.sage in a terminal: It takes ~1s + the time for the script to execute.

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Yes, Sage loads a vast number of libraries each time it starts. Maybe forking processes or parallelism is the way to go?

kcrisman ( 2016-08-19 15:47:18 +0100 )edit

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