#11587: update Cremona's tables for Sage
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    Reporter:  was                                |         Owner:  cremona     
             
        Type:  enhancement                        |        Status:  new         
             
    Priority:  major                              |     Milestone:  sage-4.7.2  
             
   Component:  elliptic curves                    |    Resolution:              
             
    Keywords:  elliptic curves ellcurve database  |   Work_issues:              
             
    Upstream:  N/A                                |      Reviewer:  John 
Cremona, Tom Boothby
      Author:  R. Andrew Ohana                    |        Merged:              
             
Dependencies:  #11642                             |  
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Comment(by leif):

 Replying to [comment:41 jdemeyer]:
 > This is the cause of a serious speed regression.  Message by Dave
 Loeffler:
 >
 > I've found the culprit: this is a side-effect of #11587. If you
 > look at [attachment:trac_11587.patch], then it removes a couple of lines
 of code
 > at lines 710-712 of sage/databases/cremona.py which sets the
 > generators to [] if the gens aren't explicitly in the database but the
 > rank is known to be 0. The new version doesn't perform this little
 > check and so we waste loads of time doing pointless 2-descents.

 I was fearing something like that.

 Why not open a follow-up (blocker) ticket for fixing that?

 alpha3 is already out...

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