On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > This program only takes 0.68s in C using a pretty naive mpz program on > sage.math. I doubt the memory allocation is really relevant. The > interpreter overhead is by far the greatest component
Thanks for looking into this. I was also dubious because Python also has a memory pool for its integers. William > > Bill. > > On 9 Sep, 17:57, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: >> Inspired by a little experiment we did to see if there is room to >> improve to ECL's bignum performance, we ran a little experiment >> computing fibonacci numbers (we wanted to test addition because it was >> mainly ECL's memory management that was under consideration) >> >> with the following defs: >> >> def fibo(n): >> a=1 >> b=1 >> c=0 >> for i in range(n): >> c=a >> a=a+b >> b=c >> return b >> >> def test(n,m): >> for i in range(m): >> _=fibo(n) >> >> sage: timeit("test(4000,4000)") >> 5 loops, best of 3: 6.99 s per loop >> sage: time test(4000,4000) >> CPU times: user 7.10 s, sys: 0.00 s, total: 7.10 s >> Wall time: 7.11 s >> sage: time test(4000,4000) >> CPU times: user 7.24 s, sys: 0.00 s, total: 7.24 s >> Wall time: 7.24 s >> sage: time test(4000,4000) >> CPU times: user 7.38 s, sys: 0.00 s, total: 7.38 s >> Wall time: 7.39 s >> sage: time test(4000,4000) >> CPU times: user 7.10 s, sys: 0.00 s, total: 7.10 s >> Wall time: 7.11 s >> sage: time test(4000,4000) >> CPU times: user 7.05 s, sys: 0.00 s, total: 7.05 s >> Wall time: 7.06 s >> >> In ECL, this took 14.8 sec (uncompiled) and 8.8 sec (compiled). Of >> course, this particular programming exercise was just to see how fast >> one can shove information into GMP and ECL at this point definitely >> doesn't claim to be particularly optimized for that particular task, >> but as you can see, straightforward python and sage do a good job. >> >> For comparison, Magma takes about 8.4 secs, as does the code above >> when I initialize a=int(1) etc. > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---