[sage-devel] Re: Performances in Sage

2009-09-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Nathann Cohen wrote: > Hello everybody !!! > > It is very nice that we have in Sage a way to automatically test our > functions through docstrings which, besides, lead us to improve the > documentation How hard could it be to find a similar way to measure > the performance of Sage function

[sage-devel] Re: Performances in Sage

2009-09-08 Thread VictorMiller
Yes, this is a great idea. The benchmarks should be contained in some sort of database, and, the previous values on the same machine should be compared to the new values, and significant departures (both positively and negatively) listed. If performance degrades significantly on one test, it cou

[sage-devel] Re: Performances in Sage

2009-09-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 7, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Hello everybody !!! > > It is very nice that we have in Sage a way to automatically test > our functions through docstrings which, besides, lead us to improve > the documentation How hard could it be to find a similar way to > measure t