On Jul 30, 2009, at 2:50 PM, VictorMiller wrote: > I just did a test of SAGE versus Magma on the same computer. > > I had a finite field GF(19991^2), and timed generating a random > element in SAGE and in Magma. > I found, much to my surprise, that Magma was a factor of 7 times > faster. Does anyone know what > method they use?
No, but for this size field we're using a wrapper around pari, so I'm sure there's lots of needless overhead converting and copying in our implementation. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
