On Saturday, 6 September 2014 20:34:56 UTC+2, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > Note that Cython supports cProfile these days: > http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/profiling_tutorial.html However, > that won't help too much as the real missing pieces are the calls from > Cython into the various C libraries. > > I'm also -1 to an approach that slows down all of Sage to track this > unconditionally.
I am also not comfortable with an approach that slows down the whole of Sage, just so people like me and my colleagues can get more credit. Especially when we are trying to speed Sage up. :-) > The decorator approach could be good for annotating > functions (e.g. attaching them to some database the citations module > would use) but recording every call could be prohibitively expensive. > > As far as the question of why software isn't cited, usually the metric > of "usefulness" is #downloads. That would be true of programs, not necessarily of libraries. There are many more users of programs than consumers of libraries, I would suspect. We don't track downloads for flint, only unique pageviews on our download page, which come in at a little over 200 a month. I find such a metric a little difficult to interpret. If you're established enough that > downloads typically come via a distribution of sorts (e.g. Sage) then > that is another data point for being useful. This adds to the > difficulty of getting academic credit for programming work. > > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Volker Braun <vbrau...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Saturday, September 6, 2014 5:44:57 PM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote: > >> > >> It takes samples at regular points during the computation > > > > > > Thats the aforementioned http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/16777. See > that > > ticket for technical obstacles of that approach. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
