On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:08:42 -0700, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't get MAGMA to go that fast. > > I timed it doing 1000 multiplies of degree 255 polynomials with > coefficients of 1000 bits. It took 15 seconds or thereabouts. > > I timed a similar thing with NTL and it took 17 seconds. They seem > comparable to me. > > The only thing I didn't do is amortize the cost of finding the 1000 bit > random numbers in MAGMA, whereas I did in NTL (it's harder to do in > MAGMA). But I timed this separately in MAGMA and it was only about 10% > of the total time. > > At any rate, I don't see anything like the factor of five that was > spoken of. > > Magma may be quite a bit faster than NTL for sparse polynomials. Were > the polynomials that you tested sparse, David Harvey?
One other potential issue is that I upgraded MAGMA on sage.math from version 2.12-20 to version 2.13-5 since when David did his tests. Maybe MAGMA got way slower?! By the way, you can run the older version by typing /usr/local/magma2.12/magma William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
