[sage-devel] Re: Sage class patches

2008-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William, > > There were several awesome projects in your Sage class last quarter > that I haven't seen any trac tickets about. For example, did Ryan > Dingman ever send you a patch for his tree generation stuff? What > abou

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

2008-07-01 Thread boothby
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Carl Witty wrote: > >>> I can't find any caching for fast_float objects (I can't see anywhere >>> they would get attached to a symbolic expression or a polynomial).  Am >>> I just not looking in the right place? >> >> Compiled polynomials get attached to polynomial objects,

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

2008-07-01 Thread Carl Witty
> > I can't find any caching for fast_float objects (I can't see anywhere > > they would get attached to a symbolic expression or a polynomial).  Am > > I just not looking in the right place? > > Compiled polynomials get attached to polynomial objects, but if   > you're not seeing fast floats gett

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

2008-07-01 Thread Robert Bradshaw
>> I think common subexpressions should be (loosely) checked for >> equality, *not* restricting to the same Python instance only. > > Hmm... this is a tradeoff between speed in constructing the > fast_callable and speed in using it. Do other people think that > common subexpressions are likely?

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

2008-07-01 Thread Carl Witty
On Jun 30, 11:44 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the author of the original fast_float stuff, I want to give a big   > +1 to this project. I've been wanting to do something like this for   > some time but it's never gotten high enough on my priority list to   > actually code up

[sage-devel] Re: using -notebook [options] while starting sage as non-root

2008-07-01 Thread Philippe Saade
Great ! Thanks ! (i must have missed something in the docs ;-) Philippe On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:37 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> but i couldn't successfully pass options to -notebook >> >> Can anybody give me a hint ? > > Use > > sage -c "notebook(options...)" > > inste

[sage-devel] Re: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-07-01 Thread parisse
> So, where does this leave giac?  You're probably no going to find > someone currently involved with Sage who wants to work on it with you. >  If you want to further its incorporation into Sage, here's what you > can do. The first step would be making giac an experimental spkg. > Personally, I k

[sage-devel] Re: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-07-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
> At every stage of this process, you should be able to find help in > answering questions that come up. Whether you can find someone else > to chip in and contribute to the work depends on who else is excited > about getting giac into Sage. But you should feel free to go ahead > and go through

[sage-devel] Re: presentation about Maxima at Sage developer days

2008-07-01 Thread David Roe
> BTW, I have also modified giac source, it should now compile with gcc > 4.3.1. Excellent! > As I said earlier, I'm ready to invest time for that, but I can't do > it alone, there must be someone on the python side who has time and > interest to do it with my help. I've seen a lot of acrimonio