A recent post reffers to ticket #14551, which proposes to use different algorithms for the same purpose, given the fact that sometimes one of them is much faster, while some other times it is just the opposite.
This situation is not uncommon in sage. Think for instance in symbollic integration with maxima/sympy. I think that a good idea could be to run the different algorithms in parallel, and whenever the first one finishes, take the answer and kill the remaining ones. On single core systems this would take roughly the time of the fastest method, multiplied by the number of methods. If there are enough cores to run the different methods, this would take roughly the time of the fastest one. Do you think that this is a good approach? In that case, should we try to include it in the different functions that have some "algorithm" keyword? Should that be the default option? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
