[sage-devel] Re: Has the number of doctests fallen ?

2010-10-29 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
On Oct 24, 1:52 am, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: It used to take about 1800 seconds to doctest Sage on my Sun Ultra 27 which runs OpenSolaris. That has now dropped to about 1600 seconds in the latest version (4.6.rc0). I've not upgraded the hardware, compiler or other software,

[sage-devel] Re: Has the number of doctests fallen ?

2010-10-25 Thread koffie
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

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Has the number of doctests fallen ?

2010-10-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
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

[sage-devel] Re: Has the number of doctests fallen ?

2010-10-25 Thread javier
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]

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Has the number of doctests fallen ?

2010-10-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:33 PM, javier vengor...@gmail.com wrote: 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