For the record, I ran into more or less the same phenomenon a couple
of days ago, and again floor() was the culprit.

Kiran

On Apr 6, 1:16 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
dortmund.de> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 7:05 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > mabshoff wrote:
>
> > > On Apr 6, 6:36 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> In the notebook of sage-2.11:
>
> > >> time plot(1.0 - x * floor(1/x), (x,0.00001,1.0)
>
> > >> CPU time: 143.77 s,  Wall time: 1660.39 s
>
> > >> with a correct image.
>
> > >> Maple is almost immediate.
>
> > >> Even worse:
> > >> time plot(1.0 - x * floor(1/x), (x, 0.0, 1.0), plot_points=1000)
>
> > >> CPU time: 244.71 s,  Wall time: 5155.23 s
>
> > >> Thoughts? See trac ticket #2831
>
> > > Hi Jaap,
>
> > > The problem is that "floor(1/x)" calls maxima. If you drop it the
> > > whole thing takes about a second.
>
> > Yes, I know. But why should I drop it, if this is what I want to plot!
>
> This indicates that _fast_eval is not used. I assume it doesn't have a
> floor() method or if it has one it isn't used. That is the bug.
>
> > Jaap
>
> Cheers.
>
> Michael
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