IIRC in the latest Cython release there was a bugfix that reduced the access time for all cython non-cdef classes [1]. Given the amount of time that is spent on function calls I wouldn't be surprised if that change propagated to a general speedup in the doctests.
Cheers J [1] http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/c97d36d23131f4c5/783574a2911c4be2? On 25 oct, 08:55, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 10/25/10 08:35 AM, koffie wrote: > > > Are you testing all doctest (ie also the long ones) since it could be > > that some long doctests have been tagged as such in an update. > > > Then there is ofcourse still the possibility that there was a merge > > off a ticket which improves general sage performance. > > > The recently proposed regresion testing package would have been > > usefull right now :). > > > Kind regards, > > Maarten Derickx > > Yes, > > I always run 'make ptestlong' but have noticed the testing time has fallen > from > around 1800 s to around 1600 s. > > My OpenSolaris machine is a buildbot slave. If you look at the test time for > the > latest buildbot > > http://build.sagemath.org/sage/builders/hawk%20full/builds/8/steps/sh... > > it is 1566 seconds. Yet I once tested Sage 100 times in a loop, and know it > was > taking around 1800 s to test then. I think its dropped by around 200 seconds, > though I can't precisely pin down when the change occurred. > > It would be useful if we could collect some statistics on the time to run the > tests on certain hardware, though of course we need to look at CPU time, not > wall time, as the latter will change with system load. But I know my system > was > idle(ish) when tests were taking 1800 s. > > I always tend to have VirtualBox running, which does eat up a bit of CPU time, > but I have that running now and still the tests are taking 200 s less at least > some previous versions of Sage > > Dave -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
