Hi Nicolas, On 2013-06-28, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote: > Issue: this induces a small overhead in the creation of categories; in > particular, upon startup, Sage creates more than 70 categories, and > according to the patch bot this gives a startup time regression of 5%, > that is 75 ms.
Hey, on the ticket and on some other thread I created on sage-devel, I already pointed out that with the little speed-ups of the two patches I added, the plugin either finds - *no* regression (this is openSUSE /12.3/x86_64/3.7.10-1.16-desktop/jehova.local on 2013-06-28 13:27:21 +0200 or - 0.25% regression with 97% confidence (this is Fedora/18/x86_64/3.9.5-201.fc18.x86_64/desktop on 2013-06-28 13:37:02 +0100 !! > I personally think the feature is well worth the price, but this > requires a poll: > > - [ ] Fair enough, go ahead > - [ ] 75 ms? are you kidding? As a general question, I think 75 ms is not much. But I think it would not make sense to make a general rule out of it. And I do believe that 0.5% (hence, 8 ms) is negligible and worth paying in this particular case, because: > - In the long run, I believe that automatizing the creation of the > category hierarchy will allow for local optimizations one would not > dare to do by hand, and yield speedups. +1 > - The creation of many of the categories that are created upon startup > could be postponed if Sage did not insist on constructing a couple > polynomial rings. Weeeeell, you need to construct polynomial rings if you want to construct finite fields (non-prime at least). I don't think there's a good way to avoid it. Best regards, Simon -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
