On Jan 5, 2008 1:06 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 4, 11:16 am, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > I meant to reply to this earlier, but I got sidetracked by the > release. > > > I got this email from Peter Doyle and with his permission I am > > forwarding it here. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Peter Doyle <> > > Date: Jan 4, 2008 12:28 AM > > Subject: sage.calculus > > To: Ondrej Certik <> > > > > Hi Ondrej, > > > > I like the idea of moving sage.calculus over to SymPy, hopefully as > > seamlessly as possible. But right now I am wondering if it wouldn't > > be possible to vastly speed up the interface between Sage and maxima, > > so that sage.calculus could run at something like the speed of Maxima. > > I don't see why the pseudo-tty interface should be so slow. Probably > > the time is spent translating between Python form and maxima? Maybe > > it would be possible to greatly speed this up? What do you think?
I think William could answer this in more details, when he get's back from San Diego. I think the time is spent in translating from Sage classes to string, then passing to maxima, maxima parses the string (actually it's own language), into Maxima representation, calculates sin(1)+sin(2) which is fast, converts to string, Sage parses this string and converts to Sage classes. So I am not surprised, that such simple things are faster in SymPy. Sage is faster when it lets calculate Maxima, like longer expansions, factoring, etc. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
