[sage-devel] Re: fast_float rewrite -- comments requested

2008-06-28 Thread Michael Abshoff
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 4:57 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 28, 4:45 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mabshoff wrote: > > > On Jun 28, 2:10 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is the policy on breaking backward compatibility of pickling a

[sage-devel] Re: fast_float rewrite -- comments requested

2008-06-28 Thread mabshoff
On Jun 28, 4:45 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mabshoff wrote: > > On Jun 28, 2:10 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the policy on breaking backward compatibility of pickling at > major releases (e.g., 4.0)? I would consider it unacceptable to break backward c

[sage-devel] Re: fast_float rewrite -- comments requested

2008-06-28 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > On Jun 28, 2:10 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jun 28, 1:55 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Carl, > >>> During Developer Days 1, I announced that I wanted to rewrite >>> fast_float to support evaluation over more types, to handle common >>> sub

[sage-devel] Re: fast_float rewrite -- comments requested

2008-06-28 Thread Carl Witty
On Jun 28, 2:16 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 28, 2:10 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another question about the rewrite: does anybody mind if I break > > unpickling of old pickled fast_float objects?  I can make them work, > > but it would require keeping around

[sage-devel] Re: fast_float rewrite -- comments requested

2008-06-28 Thread mabshoff
On Jun 28, 2:10 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 28, 1:55 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Carl, > > During Developer Days 1, I announced that I wanted to rewrite > > fast_float to support evaluation over more types, to handle common > > subexpressions, and to handl

[sage-devel] Re: fast_float rewrite -- comments requested

2008-06-28 Thread Carl Witty
On Jun 28, 1:55 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During Developer Days 1, I announced that I wanted to rewrite > fast_float to support evaluation over more types, to handle common > subexpressions, and to handle conditional expressions.  I've started > this project by writing a new vers

[sage-devel] fast_float rewrite -- comments requested

2008-06-28 Thread Carl Witty
During Developer Days 1, I announced that I wanted to rewrite fast_float to support evaluation over more types, to handle common subexpressions, and to handle conditional expressions. I've started this project by writing a new version of the fast_eval.pyx module docstring, and I'm wondering if an

[sage-devel] Re: multivariate Polynomial Ring with one variable

2008-06-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 27, 2008, at 3:18 AM, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote: > On Jun 27, 11:50 am, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Friday 27 June 2008 04:59:37 am Burcin Erocal wrote: >> >> In general, the difference between >> multivariate and univariate should not matter in practice. >> > +1

[sage-devel] Re: orders in number fields are not unique parents?

2008-06-28 Thread John Cremona
2008/6/28 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:06 PM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 2008/6/27 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could someone who knows orders

[sage-devel] Re: GMP patches in SAGE

2008-06-28 Thread mabshoff
On Jun 27, 11:56 pm, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > I'm just looking at the GMP spkg in sage to see what if any SAGE > patches can be applied to mpir before we make our first release. > > Can someone tell me what the various patches do. I know what the > fastgcd, gmp-4.2.1-core2-port