[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread William Stein
a On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:04 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 25, 3:46 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, >> but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. > > The Numpy FFT

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Gabriel Gellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:12:18PM -0400, Gabriel Gellner wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:40:33AM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: >> > >> > David Joyner wrote: >> > > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread Gabriel Gellner
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:12:18PM -0400, Gabriel Gellner wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:40:33AM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: > > > > David Joyner wrote: > > > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, > > > but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread Gabriel Gellner
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:40:33AM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: > > David Joyner wrote: > > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, > > but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. > > > The current CDF and RDF vectors implement fft using GSL. I'm in the

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, > but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. The current CDF and RDF vectors implement fft using GSL. I'm in the process of switching the RDF/CDF vector backend to numpy, and then the fft

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha0 released

2008-10-25 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 25, 4:51 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, but this is strange. I changed the PATH to something stupid. > Then the make of course failed. Then I changed it back to the > original. Now make worked fine. Huh??? The check is only done in prereq once, i.e. once you pass

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha0 released

2008-10-25 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 23, 2008, at 16:01 , David Joyner wrote: > >> >> The install failed right off the bad on a OS10.4intel macbook: >> >> new-host-3:/Volumes/G-DRIVE-MINI/sagestuff/sage-3.2.alpha0 wdj$ make >> cd spkg && ./insta

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 25, 3:46 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, > but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. The Numpy FFT is fairly quick and AFAIK we only build a subset of the possible libraries there. Th

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread David Joyner
(1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. (2) I'm not sure what a toolbox actually *is*. Something like an optional package with a nice gui interface? (3) Related to this thread, I just got an email from Cesar (