#11589: faster zero matrix creation
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   Reporter:  malb            |          Owner:  jason, was                 
       Type:  enhancement     |         Status:  new                        
   Priority:  major           |      Milestone:  sage-4.7.2                 
  Component:  linear algebra  |       Keywords:                             
Work_issues:                  |       Upstream:  N/A                        
   Reviewer:                  |         Author:  Martin Albrecht, Simon King
     Merged:                  |   Dependencies:                             
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Changes (by newvalueoldvalue):

  * author:  => Martin Albrecht, Simon King


Comment:

 Timings on my machine:

 '''with patch'''
 {{{
 #!python
 sage: for n in (50,500,1000): timeit('A=matrix(GF(2),%d,%d)'%(n,n))
 ....:
 625 loops, best of 3: 104 µs per loop
 625 loops, best of 3: 108 µs per loop
 625 loops, best of 3: 115 µs per loop

 sage: for n in (50,500,1000): timeit('A=matrix(GF(3),%d,%d)'%(n,n))
 ....:
 625 loops, best of 3: 100 µs per loop
 625 loops, best of 3: 448 µs per loop
 125 loops, best of 3: 1.65 ms per loop
 }}}

 '''without patch'''
 {{{
 #!python
 sage: for n in (50,500,1000): timeit('A=matrix(GF(2),%d,%d)'%(n,n))
 ....:
 625 loops, best of 3: 97.6 µs per loop
 625 loops, best of 3: 108 µs per loop
 625 loops, best of 3: 128 µs per loop

 sage: for n in (50,500,1000): timeit('A=matrix(GF(3),%d,%d)'%(n,n))
 ....:
 625 loops, best of 3: 94.1 µs per loop
 625 loops, best of 3: 502 µs per loop
 125 loops, best of 3: 2.48 ms per loop
 sage:

 }}}

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