On Jan 4, 6:21 pm, "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Justin C. Walker <jus...@mac.com> wrote:

Hi,

<SNIP>

> I built on a CentOS 64-bit system with 1GB RAM, and a test in arith.py
> fails due to swapping leading to a timeout.  The test in question is a
> *massive* performance regression, I think caused by a patch of Craig
> Citro.  I've created a blocker ticket for this here:

Hmm, do you mean

changeset:   10906:5af5af172db9
user:        Craig Citro <craigci...@gmail.com>
date:        Wed Nov 05 02:04:21 2008 -0800
summary:     Speed up prime_range, massive arith cleanup. See trac
#4443.

I am under the impression that Craig added a bunch of doctests
including this one, but I could be wrong.

>  http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4939
>
> I've posted  a patch there, and hope somebody will review it (hint,
> hint: Craig.)

:)

> I think this should be a blocker since it prevents doctests pass on
> what I view as a supported platform (namely 64-bit machines with <=
> 1GB RAM).

Yep, and I agree that we should not be using pari for this. I cannot
believe that this doesn't expose a bug in pari, so if someone has
2.3.4svn or 2.4.3svn handy please check out if this is still a problem
and report it upsream if that is the case.

> William

Cheers,

Michael
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