Yep, that was the main (in my opinion for SAGE) feature enhancement of cython 0.6.7 (included in sage 2.8.7).
I am still not sold that rdef is the best name, been toying with bdef (for "both") or something else, but we can start using it and if the signature changes, that's a one-line patch. - Robert On Oct 16, 2007, at 1:28 PM, David Roe wrote: > Is rdef in sage 2.8.7? > David > > On 10/16/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 14, 2007, at 1:40 AM, Joshua Kantor wrote: > > > > > Good to see that you got things sped up. > > > > The factor of 30 or so slowdown is consistent with my experience > > comparing to matlab. > > I believe the issue is that due to the way the interface to gsl > works > > > > explanation: > > The gsl ode solver is a c function that requires a C function > pointer > > to be passed to it. > > So we have to convert the users python function into a C function, > > this is done by > > defining a cdef pyrex function that takes the users function as an > > argument and calls it. So in the end every function evaluation > calls a > > C function which calls your python function. > > Python function calls are expensive so this adds overhead. > > > > > > It is possible to directly define the system as a pyrex object which > > makes the wrapping unnecessary and means all function calls are > in C, > > this is much faster and I found it to be comparable to matlab, > > however, this is hard for a general user to do. > > Perhaps this could be written to use the new rdef function code, to > make it easier for the user to provide a cdef function to the solver. > > - Robert > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
