Using Oscar takes a long time to import (~1 minute) — Is this expected behavior?

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Hello,

I noticed that importing the Oscar.jl package in Julia using using Oscar takes quite a long time, around a minute. Here’s a simple reproducible example:

julia

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@time using Oscar

On my machine, it consistently takes around 60 seconds. This delay makes it inconvenient for interactive use.

Is this expected behaviour?

Thanks.

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I’m seeing around 15 seconds on my machine (20 × 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13800H, running in WSL2) so I wouldn’t say 60 seconds is completely unexpected on weaker hardware?

If this is a deal braker for you then maybe consider building a system image with Oscar (although I don’t know anything about Oscar, not sure how much system images help given that according to @time only <20% of the using time is compilation)

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Thank you for your prompt response!

I should have mentioned my specifications earlier—here they are:
Intel(R) Core™ Ultra 7 165U @ 2.10 GHz
** I’m also working on WSL.

As for the issue, it ties into another post of mine. I need to work with ideals involving rational coefficients, and Oscar seems to be the only viable option at the moment. I’ll give your solution a try—thank you again!