Hello, I've been recently doing some work which requires linear algebra over fraction fields of polynomial rings. I found that this is _much_ slower than it should be.
sage: hlqp5 = [ symmetrica.hall_littlewood(p) for p in Partitions(5) ] sage: hlqp5_m = matrix([[ x.coefficient(p) for p in Partitions(5) ] for x in hlqp5]) sage: hlqp5_m.parent() Full MatrixSpace of 7 by 7 dense matrices over Polynomial Ring in x over Integer Ring sage: time hlqp5_i = hlqp5_m^(-1) CPU times: user 1.06 s, sys: 0.19 s, total: 1.26 s Wall time: 1.42 sage: prun hlqp5_i = hlqp5_m^(-1) 570758 function calls (570193 primitive calls) in 2.817 CPU seconds Ordered by: internal time ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function) 7234 0.184 0.000 0.586 0.000 pexpect.py:914(expect_list) 7234 0.166 0.000 1.302 0.000 expect.py:549(_eval_line) 7234 0.125 0.000 1.634 0.000 singular.py:325(eval) 14468 0.109 0.000 0.109 0.000 {posix.write} 4398 0.101 0.000 0.127 0.000 multi_polynomial_element.py:277(__init__) 7269 0.099 0.000 0.296 0.000 pexpect.py:498(read_nonblocking) 7234 0.090 0.000 1.435 0.000 expect.py:637(eval) ... I'm not sure why the slow pexpect interface is being used, but I definitely thing it shouldn't be. I haven't been able to track down where it is being introduced. Does someone more familiar with this area know why this is happening? Thanks, Mike P.S. Does SAGE already have an efficient way to obtain the inverse of a matrix that is known to be upper or lower triangular in advance? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---