On Aug 5, 2016, at 15:50 , Justin C. Walker wrote: > > On Aug 5, 2016, at 11:59 , John Cremona wrote: > >> Andrew Sutherland reports the following: >> >> After >> >> x = polygen(QQ) >> R = QQ[x] >> pol = R([-1,-3,6,4,-5,-1,1]) >> K = NumberField(pol,'a') >> I = K.ideal([1,1]) >> >> all is well, but then >> >> I >> >> (to display the unit ideal) takes a long, and variable, time. What is >> going on? (Don't bother telling me that it is silly to repeat the >> ideal generator, we extracted this from more complicated code while >> debugging.) > > FWIW, it happened between 6.10 (the latests one I can build in 10.6.8) and > 7.0 (the first I built on 10.11). Unless there's a really subtle difference > between the two versions of OS X.
I spoke to soon. I tried this on a 6.10 version that had been up and running for some time (192 days; not continuously in use - I use it for random intermittent calculations...). I started a fresh copy on the same system and got the same noticeably long time to just display "I". Sorry for the noise. -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large, Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -------- The path of least resistance: it's not just for electricity any more. -------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
