[sage-devel] Re: upgrade of ECL and Maxima

2009-08-25 Thread r Rishikesh
After a long time, I can finally compile maxima on my laptop (linux on ppc g4). Rishi On Aug 24, 3:50 am, Alex Ghitza wrote: > Dear sage-devel, > > As David Kirkby pointed out, we have been working on upgrading ECL to > version 9.8.4 and Maxima to version 5.19.1.  There are several reasons > to

[sage-devel] Re:

2009-05-29 Thread r Rishikesh
I have a patch which is working (thanks to mabshoff for helping me remove the horrible memory leak in Tucson). The patch does not have doctests. It relies on a patch to lcalc itself. I have asked Mike Rubinstein to make it a part of lcalc. This was more than 2 months ago. I have not heard anyt

[sage-devel] Re: Speeding up integer arithmetic

2006-10-12 Thread R Rishikesh
; There have been proposals for mutable integers, and that's what you're > suggesting below. I think there should be a class > > MutableInteger > > that derives from integer and is mutable. These would offer some > ops like you suggest below. > > -- Wil

[sage-devel] Re: Speeding up integer arithmetic

2006-10-12 Thread R Rishikesh
It may be possible to minimize the intermediate object creation by introducing intermediate objects at the beginning of a block and reusing them (especially in loops). example for i in range(100): f(a+i) is translated to c=0 for i in range(100): c.set_to_sum(a,i) This reduce