[SciPy-user] Newbie question on execution time of import scipy

[Fernando Perez]

> Example:
> 
>     import time
>     >>> s = time.time(); import scipy; print time.time() - s
>     16.6560000181
> 
> 
> Details on my platform:
> Win2k
> CPU = 1.8GHz
> RAM = 1GB
> Python = 
> Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> cipy.__version__ = '0.2.0_alpha_182.4038'

Well, scipy is large, but I get:


In [1]: import time

In [2]: >>> s = time.time(); import scipy; print time.time() - s
4.10625100136

on much less hardware than you (1.1 Ghz PIII laptop, RedHat 8.0 running a lot 
of stuff at the same time).  It may be a Windows thing, I guess.

Cheers,

f.