On 10/25/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/25/07, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are some real surprises on that list. MPFR has many more lines > > of code than I thought, Pari many fewer lines of code. It's amazing > > what it achieves with such a small code base. > > I think one should take everything in that table with a grain of salt, and > verify it by hand if it is really surprising. That said, it does say > something. > > > FLINT is a bloated pig compared to NTL, given what the two packages > > actually do. > > > > What's really amazing is that GMP has so much more code than Pari. > > Maybe part of that is that GMP has lots of assembler code and dozens > of different > versions of the same function for dozens of different architectures. ? > > > Also, aren't CoCoALib and MPC used in SAGE? > > Neither of them are used on Sage. A public version of CoCoALib was > only fairly recently released, and by that time Sage already had a powerful > library interface to Singular. I had wanted to use MPC in Sage at one point, > but when I tried I was shocked by how far MPC was behind PARI in > functionality, > especially for special functions. At the time MPC wasn't very mature > / stable either. > Perhaps in a year both cocoalib and mpc could be in Sage; I don't know. > > Bill Page: > > For example, does the Lisp entry in > > mercurial-0.9.5 python=27386,sh=8300,tcl=3484,lisp=1411,ansic=1364 > >make sense? As far as I know mercurial does not use any Lisp, or does it? > > That's a huge surprise to me too. I can't imagine how mercurial would make > use of lisp code. It certainly doesn't depend on lisp to be installed.
The lisp lines in GAP are due to the emacs interface. Maybe mercurial is similar? Also, the number of lines of GAP code written in GAP's own interpretive language (which is the majority) is not counted at all ... > > -- 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
