On 20 Aug., 16:34, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > Martin Albrecht had opened #9562 and proposed to use M4RIE as default > for matrices over GF(2^e). If I understand correctly, the package > builds fine on all supported platforms (including Cygwin). > > The ticket is almost getting a positive review from me, modulo some > minor issues with documentation. > > On the ticket, David Kirkby reminded us that a new standard spkg > requires a vote on sage-devel, so, here we are... > > I, for one, am particularly impressed by the performance. If I > understood correctly, it is not only VASTLY faster than the current > implementation in Sage - it even beats Magma. Perhaps Martin can make > a stronger case. > > I will certainly use M4RIE in my applications (where I need fast > matrices over finite not necessarily prime fields), and I vote for > including it as a standard package.
FWIW, the current libm4rie-20110715.spkg is 360 KB, while the cleaned- up matplotlib-1.0.1.p0.spkg will shrink the Sage tarball by 7 MB again, so I won't object to including it as a standard spkg. IIRC, adding a standard spkg also requires someone in charge of its maintenance for at least two years; maybe ask Martin...? ;-) -leif -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
