[sage-devel] Re: Using non-standard Fortran compiler with sage-3.4

2009-04-04 Thread Daryl Hammond
Total time for all tests: 5048.9 seconds -- CUT -- On Apr 3, 12:28 am, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Daryl Hammond wrote: > > > I had a somewhat similar problem trying to use gfortran under Fedora > > 10 for a Sage-3.2.3 install. > > &

[sage-devel] Re: Using non-standard Fortran compiler with sage-3.4

2009-04-02 Thread Daryl Hammond
I had a somewhat similar problem trying to use gfortran under Fedora 10 for a Sage-3.2.3 install. I followed the README instructions: export SAGE_FORTRAN=/usr/bin/gfortran export SAGE_FORTRAN_LIB=/usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3.0.0 make The build failed on the link edit (ld) command for atlas-3.8.2.p

[sage-devel] Python Performance Improvement

2009-03-26 Thread Daryl Hammond
I found this article on Python performance improvement interesting: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars Google's goal appears to be a 5x performance improvement in Python. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: book that uses sage

2008-07-17 Thread Daryl Hammond
In section 1.1.3 of your book you state: "The smallest currently open challenge is RSA-704, worth $30.000: ..." In 2007 RSA withdrew all unsolved factoring challenges: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2094 RSA-704 remains unsolved, but solving it today will only earn you a mention in wikip