Robert Kern wrote:
It's still pretty bad, though. I do recommend running Disk Repair like Bill did.
I did that, and it found and did nothing -- I suspect it ran when I re-booted -- it did take a while to reboot. However, this is pretty consistently what I'm getting now: $ time python -c "import numpy" real 0m0.728s user 0m0.327s sys 0m0.398s Which is apparently pretty slow. Robert gets: $ time python -c "import numpy" python -c "import numpy" 0.18s user 0.46s system 88% cpu 0.716 total Is that on a similar machine??? Are you running Universal binaries? Would that make any difference? I wouldn't think so, I'm just grasping at straws here. This is a Dual 1.8GHz G5 desktop, running OS-X 10.4.11, Python 2.5.2 (python.org build), numpy 1.1.1 (from binary on sourceforge) I just tried this on a colleague's machine that is identical, and got about 0.4 seconds "real" -- so faster than mine, but still slow. This still feels blazingly fast to me, as I was getting something like 7+ seconds! thanks for all the help, -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov