On Jul 31, 2007, at 22:54 , Jonathan Bober wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 22:16 -0700, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>> On Jul 31, 2007, at 18:36 , William Stein wrote:
[snip]
>> On a Core 2 Duo 2.33 Mhz, computing the number of partitions of 10^9:
>>    Mathematica 5.2 (PartitionsP[10^9]:        95.5115 s
>>    Sage 2.7.2.1 (number_of_partitions(10^9): 125.2 s
>>    Jon Bober's code (i386: 'jb 1000000000'): 160 s
>>
>> I wonder why our Core 2 Duo timings are so different?
> That is puzzling. Are you sure that you have the latest version of the
> code? The source file should have 'Version .3' at the top.

Yup.  Double-checked the file; and re-ran the test.  Essentially the  
same time.  I'll check this tomorrow, along with the Mathematica oddity.

> You can get
> the latest version, or at least that latest version minus some memory
> leak fixes, via hg_sage.pull(), or from
>
> http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~bober/partitions_c.cc
>
> The last version I posted to the list was significantly slower than  
> what
> I have now (especially since I think I accidently had significant
> improvements commented out in the last code I posted to the list.)

That was the the "Jon Bober" timing above.  I'll try the latest one  
later.

Justin

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