[sage-support] Re: Very slow matrix calculations in SAGE

2011-07-16 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jul 15, 9:10 am, Henry de Valence wrote: > Thanks -- I'll look into the process of writing a patch over the > weekend. Rather than try to implement kernels over inexact rings, I suspect you would be better off using an LU decomposition for an RDF/CDF matrix and making your own decisions on whe

[sage-support] Re: Very slow matrix calculations in SAGE

2011-07-14 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jul 13, 8:32 pm, William Stein wrote: > Sage is probably just using some completely generic general > implementation of "kernel" for matrices. Yes, that is correct. It's a totally generic routine and it stands a very good chance of giving an incorrect result with entries from RDF. The LU rou