On Dec 20, 2007 1:13 PM, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For comparison, here is our favourite non-free closed source package > vs Pari and NTL for factoring with two large factors: > > Magma vs Pari: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wbhart/flint-trunk/graphing/magpari-factor.png > > Magma vs NTL: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wbhart/flint-trunk/graphing/magNTL-factor.png > > Something that may not be fair here is that Magma factors the content, > so I have divided the polynomials used by their content before > factoring them. But I didn't include the time taken to divide by the > content in the timing. Given that computing the content should be > almost instant generically, I don't see this as much of a problem > though.
Conclusion: Magma completely totally devastates both PARI and NTL, except for some small cases? That's what the plots seem to say. I now really wonder how Maple and Mathematica do in comparison. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
