On Friday 10 August 2007, David Harvey wrote: > Strongly agree. > > I'd like to add something. I consider "slowness" a bug. When SAGE does > something obviously way too slowly, that's almost as bad as a genuine > bug. Some slownesses are easy to fix, some are not. > > One of the things that really worries me is that someone who doesn't > know the code really intimately, can change something in a way that > they think improves the code, but that has a dramatic negative effect > on performance in apparently unrelated areas. A common culprit is > adding "type-checking" to the beginning of a low-level function. We > currently don't have any systematic way of even *noticing* these kinds > of things. > > It would be great if we had some coherent way of managing this. The > first thing that occurs to me is some kind of "docprofile" (like > doctests, but for checking speed of operations). If this works, it > might be a good way of spotting "speed regressions". This is probably > quite hard to set up.... for lots of reasons.... but I'm wondering > whether people think something like this is feasible. > > david
Actually, after thinking about it: I would like to split this thread. Even though I like the idea of filing bug reports for things that are slow and being conscious about speed regressions when fixing bugs, I would like to focus on bugs in a very narrow sense for the first bug squashing event. A bug in this sense is a command which returns an error message, a SEGFAULT or a wrong result for something that is supposed to work. Those things leave a quite bad impression and should be relatively easy to fix in general. Thoughts? Martin Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
