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Sage Beginner's Guide

By : Craig Finch
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Book Image

Sage Beginner's Guide

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By: Craig Finch

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Sage Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing a binary version of Sage on OS X


On Mac OS X, you have the option of installing a pre-built binary application, or downloading the source code and compiling Sage yourself. One advantage of the pre-built binary is that it is very easy to install, because it contains everything you need to run Sage. Another advantage of the binary is that building Sage from source requires a lot of computational resources, and may take a long time on older machines. However, there are a number of disadvantages to prebuilt binaries. The binary download is quite large, and the installed files take up a lot of disk space. Many of the tools in the binary may be duplicates of tools you already have on your system. Pre-built binaries cannot be tuned to take advantage of the hardware features of a particular platform, so building Sage from source is preferred if you are looking for the best performance on CPU-intensive tasks. You will have to choose which method is right for you.

Downloading Sage

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