Hi Waldek, all,

If that matters, I know that Victor Shoup maintains a set of
benchmarks that compares NTL vs Flint. He even spotted a recently
introduced bug in Flint via his set (fixed since). If you want here is
a link of some of his results : https://libntl.org/benchmarks.pdf.

Cheers,


Le sam. 20 févr. 2021 à 17:47, Waldek Hebisch
<[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:47:19PM +0200, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 08:50:27PM +0200, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 02:40:32PM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > The attached file is code comes from the problem of creating  the
> > > > algebraic closure of PrimeField(p) by dynamically extending with a field
> > > > with a new polynomial that does not completely factor. It basically
> > > > works, but when I tried with the polynomials over GF(43) I realized very
> > > > long running times.
> > > >
> > > > The following maps this to FiniteField(43,84) (the splitting field of
> > > > the 3 polynomials
> > > >
> > > > p3 := x^3 - 29
> > > > p5 := x^5 - 29
> > > > p7 := x^7 - 29
> > > >
> > > > When I factor them on my lapto I get:
> > > >
> > > > Time: 8.57 (EV) + 0.00 (OT) = 8.57 sec
> > > > Time: 23.81 (EV) + 0.00 (OT) = 23.82 sec
> > > > Time: 35.38 (EV) = 35.38 sec
> > > >
> > > > After analyzing where the time is spent I found that there is an
> > > > exptMod(t1, (p1 quo 2)::NNI, fprod) call in ddfact.spad
> > > > where t1 and fprod are polynomials of degree 1 and 7 (for the last case)
> > > > and (p1 quo 2)::NNI is
> > > >
> > > > 81343016389104495051429314429892710283748121052067002779751599748804821941
> > > >     461709990823638183537929646810274525597886525946443695227097400
> > > >
> > > > Clearly, that is a huge number and the coefficients of the polynomials
> > > > are (as elements of FF(43,84)) univariate polynomials of degree 83).
> > > > So it is expected to take a while.
> > > >
> > > > However, I did the same computation with Magma in a fraction of a
> > > > second. Is FriCAS so bad here? :-(
> > >
> > > One possible way is to create variant of FiniteField
> > > which uses U32Vector as representation.  To say how
> > > much speedup one would get one needs to implement it
> > > and measure.
> >
> > I have implemented toy domain like this (just operations
> > needed for test above).  On my machine it runs 3 times
> > faster with default build.  With sbcl at highest
> > optimization level it runs 4 times faster.  There
> > is significant room for easy improvement as polynomial
> > remainder U32VectorPolynomialOperations is rather slow.
>
> Just little more about possible speed.  I tried toy
> problem as a benchmark:
>
> pF := PrimeField(nextPrime(10^7)) -- 10000019
> uP := UnivariatePolynomial(x, pF)
> pol := reduce(*, [x - (20 + 5*i)::pF for i in 1..84])
>
> On my computer (rather slow one) I get the following times
> (in seconds):
>
> regular FriCAS factor       1.03
> mfractor from MODFACT       0.018
> flint                       0.009
> NTL                         0.038
>
> Note: it is possible that I am using NTL incorrectly.  Namely,
> NTL have a type for machine sized integers modulo prime, but
> ATM I found no way to use polynomials of machine sized integers
> modulo prime.  Also, for the test I compiled critical FriCAS
> routines at safety 0 (most of the time extra safety checks
> are cheap, but in low level code involved here they make
> significant difference).
>
> As you can see there is possibility for 50 times speedup and
> that brings us within factor of 2 to flint and is better than
> my current NTL result.
>
> Concerning your original problem, degree 3 case in flint
> took 0.08s, and in NTL about 1.2s.  Current regular FriCAS
> factorizer needs 15.88s on my machine.  AFAICS using
> similar methods like in MODFACT it should be possible
> to have speed within factor 2-4 to flint.  Let me add
> that there are other possiblities for faster arithmetic
> over finite fields, but my impression is that flint
> does not use them: basically it seems that flint
> advantage is mainly due to better machine optimization
> in gcc compared to sbcl.
>
> Looking again at the problem it is not clear what is the
> intent.  Is the intent to benchmark finite field factorizer?
> Then the example is somewhat atypical because polynomials
> split into linear factors.  If the intend is to embed
> smaller field into bigger one, then there are better
> methods.  For example, factorizer spends some thime to
> find out that polynomials split, this can be skipped
> if we know this.  For purpose of embedding single
> root should be enough, that is cheaper than finding
> all roots.  In this case we know more: polynomial
> will spilt over a subfield, so we can bias factoring
> to effectively work in this subfield.  And working
> in opposite direction may be cheaper: computing power
> of single element with high probablity we will get
> minimal polynomial for subfield, factoring this
> polynomial over smaller field will give us embedding.
> On my machine I need 0.92s to compite power and 0.3s
> to compite minimal polynomial (which is of degree 3).
> Both operations should allows significant speed-up
> by using more efficient low level routines.
>
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