MacBook Air: OSX El Capitan
When I run TensorFlow code in terminal (python 3 tfpractice.py), I get a longer than normal waiting time to get back output
Those are simply warnings. They are just informing you if you build TensorFlow from source it can be faster on your machine. Those instructions are not enabled by default on the builds available I think to be compatible with more CPUs as possible. If you have any other doubts regarding this please feel free to ask, otherwise this can be closed.
Try export TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=2
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/7778