I just tried that on my laptop (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.5) and it took 74 seconds for sage-3.2, 73 seconds for sage-4.6.alpha0. Since that difference is probably just noise, things haven't changed.
-M. Hampton On Sep 16, 3:10 pm, Greg Marks <gtma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Out of curiosity... > > Athttp://sagemath.org/tour-benchmarks.htmlthe CPU time > given for factorization of the integer 2^512 - 1 with SAGE > version 4.1.1 is 92.29 sec. I just tried this with SAGE > version 4.5.2, running under 64-bit Linux on a laptop with > an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU @ 2.40 GHz and 2.9 GiB RAM, > and the same calculation required only 31.39 sec. CPU time. > (The same factorization, on the same computer, using Maple 14 > required 185.43 sec., incidentally. I don't have a recent > version of Mathematica to compare.) > > The documentation says SAGE calls PARI for this calculation. > Is the threefold improvement in speed due to any change in > the factorization algorithm between SAGE 4.1.1 and SAGE 4.5.2? > Or is it due to a difference in hardware, or something else? > > Best regards, > Greg Marks > > ------------------------------------------------ > | Greg Marks | > | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | > | St. Louis University | > | St. Louis, MO 63103-2007 | > | U.S.A. | > | | > | Phone: (314)977-7206 | > | Fax: (314)977-1452 | > | Web:http://math.slu.edu/~marks | > ------------------------------------------------ -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
