On 22/08/2008, at 11:10 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> what are the chances that maxima could be made fast, so that people > intuitively feel it's as fast as mathematica for the problems they > solve It may already have been said, but a large part of the reason it feels slow is that AFAICT maxima is not loaded until first use. f.derivative(x) took yonks on my powerbook the very first time I did it, and that's the time that mattered because that was the time I was trying it out. (The benchmark for "yonks" is "long enough to wonder whether sage had crashed.") I very much doubt it's related to benchmarkable speed on large calculations. I have no intuition for how long a computer should take to perform a large symbolic calculation, even on systems I know extremely well. Is anyone cynical enough to make sage 'snappy'? D --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
