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From 20 Nov 2019 to 19 Dec 2019
17 Dec 2019
- 12:25 CoCoA-5 Bug #1093 (In Progress): GUI: bugs and slugs
- I have changed *@configure@* so that it sets a flag saying whether to build the Qt GUI; this is determined by a comma...
16 Dec 2019
- 21:31 CoCoA-5 Bug #1093: GUI: bugs and slugs
- Ulrich reported that the GUI fails to compile now that we are using *@nullptr@*.
I had a quick search online, and fo...
14 Dec 2019
- 12:37 CoCoALib Design #1377: CpuTimeLimit: limit "intervals" between full checks
- Now I'm thinking it may be simpler to use an approach like this:
measure actual @CpuTime@ difference over the last... - 12:32 CoCoALib Bug #1376: GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
- Reply to comment 6:
yes, @CpuTimeLimit@ does already attempt to adapt automatically. I'm discussing (with myself?) ...
13 Dec 2019
- 18:17 CoCoALib Design #1377 (In Progress): CpuTimeLimit: limit "intervals" between full checks
- The experimental results above suggest that approach *(B)* is probably too simplistic if there is any risk of a @CpuT...
- 14:33 CoCoALib Design #1377: CpuTimeLimit: limit "intervals" between full checks
- Here are the results of an extreme speed test for option *(B)* in the previous comment.
The simplistic test progra... - 13:46 CoCoALib Design #1377: CpuTimeLimit: limit "intervals" between full checks
- My current suggestions:
* *(A)* let the creator of the @CpuTimeLimit@ object specify a maximum interval between genu... - 13:39 CoCoALib Design #1377: CpuTimeLimit: limit "intervals" between full checks
- In the current CVS version, intervals between genuine checks can be as long as 1000000 calls.
*Quick reminder*: is... - 13:30 CoCoALib Design #1377 (Closed): CpuTimeLimit: limit "intervals" between full checks
- A *@CpuTimeLimit@* object actually genuinely checks the time limit only every @N@ calls to the check function. The v...
- 13:26 CoCoALib Bug #1376: GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
- I was thinking of an alternative approach since the timeout mechanism is applied in so different cases:
The interval... - 12:45 CoCoALib Bug #1376: GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
- An important point to note is that the design of @CpuTimeLimit@ works best when the times between successive calls to...
- 11:57 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- Instead of guessing, do this ;-)...
12 Dec 2019
- 21:44 CoCoALib Bug #1376 (In Progress): GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
- It seems that my guess was good.
In @CpuTimeLimit.C@ around line 67, the code allowed the interval between full ch... - 17:04 CoCoALib Bug #1376: GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
- I noticed the problem while using a simple program to look for ideals where it was costly to compute the RGB of the r...
- 17:02 CoCoALib Bug #1376 (Closed): GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
- It seems that sometimes @GBasisTimeout@ does not timeout as one would expect.
I have just interrupted (via C-c C-c... - 15:30 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- I have modified my program to call @GBasisTimeout@, and I specified 30s as the time-out.
I was a bit surprised to fi... - 13:33 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- Here are some more examples where it takes a long time to compute RGB after computing radical:...
- 11:33 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- The current solution (increasing the "increment" to 0.5) works well on the small examples I have tried: sometimes the...
- 11:58 CoCoA-5 Slug #948: radical is slow (compared to singular) on these examples
- As reported in the previous comment, example 1 was still a problem. I increased the extra time (to 2.5s), then the c...
- 11:42 CoCoA-5 Slug #948: radical is slow (compared to singular) on these examples
- After the change mentioned in issue #1375, the examples in comment 13 are now satisfactorily quick. The example in c...
11 Dec 2019
- 17:40 CoCoA-5 Slug #948: radical is slow (compared to singular) on these examples
- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> John Abbott wrote:
> > My simple idea was just to add say 0.1 to the actual measured ti... - 15:08 CoCoALib Slug #1375 (In Progress): Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- Following Anna's suggestion I moved @t0 := CpuTime();@ to just before the computation of the radical; so the time dif...
10 Dec 2019
- 15:12 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- Sometimes radical is computed with the GBasis, sometimes not: this depends on a timeout, which probably is a very cri...
- 14:41 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- I have done more testing. The timings really do vary from run to run.
I wrote a shell script which took exactly t... - 13:28 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- This getting more puzzling!
Here is another example: essentially the same code as in the original description but
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09 Dec 2019
- 21:08 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- I wanted to show the students an example where it is much better to use @IsInRadical@ than compute the radical (with ...
- 21:06 CoCoALib Slug #1375 (Closed): Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- I have observed some strange variations in timings when computing the RGB of a radical:...
- 16:26 CoCoA-5 Feature #1374: Add function power to CoCoA-5
- John Abbott wrote:
> I am inclined to say that there is not much point in writing any tests for @power@. What do yo... - 16:07 CoCoA-5 Feature #1374: Add function power to CoCoA-5
- I am inclined to say that there is not much point in writing any tests for @power@. What do you think?
- 15:42 CoCoA-5 Feature #1374: Add function power to CoCoA-5
- John Abbott wrote:
> If you are convinced that my approach is better, then, yes, please undo your CVS update.
ok
... - 13:55 CoCoA-5 Feature #1374: Add function power to CoCoA-5
- Should the function be documented?
If so, we should probably state that it exists just to increase compatibility b... - 13:37 CoCoA-5 Feature #1374: Add function power to CoCoA-5
- If you are convinced that my approach is better, then, yes, please undo your CVS update.
I am not certain whether ... - 12:46 CoCoA-5 Feature #1374: Add function power to CoCoA-5
- ooops, we overlapped and made incompatible changes.
But I think you had a better idea.
Should I undo my cvs?
- 12:21 CoCoA-5 Feature #1374: Add function power to CoCoA-5
- I have just checked in a @power@ function defined in @cocolib.cpkg5@.
My approach means that @power@ works for any t... - 12:03 CoCoA-5 Feature #1374: Add function power to CoCoA-5
- Implemented for RingElem (in OneLiners)
- 11:58 CoCoA-5 Feature #1374 (Closed): Add function power to CoCoA-5
- In CoCoA we can write @g^4@, but in CoCoALib we have to write @power(g,4)@ (because of incompatible priority of @oper...
- 13:34 CoCoALib Slug #1136: IsInRadical: sometimes a bit slow
- Just for the record...
With the exponent pair (3,4), my computer takes about 2.4s whereas with the pair (4,5) it t... - 12:56 CoCoALib Slug #1136 (Closed): IsInRadical: sometimes a bit slow
- Instant on my computer. I wonder how it was improved....
05 Dec 2019
- 15:55 CoCoALib Slug #1136 (Feedback): IsInRadical: sometimes a bit slow
- It took about 0.08s on my computer just now. This is probably fine; I see no advantage in making it lengthier.
Move... - 15:52 CoCoALib Slug #1136: IsInRadical: sometimes a bit slow
- What is the status of this issue?
Can it be closed soon?
04 Dec 2019
- 17:38 CoCoALib Bug #1233: factor SEGV -- too large characteristic
- This now gives error rather than SEGV -- so that is an improvement!
- 17:19 CoCoALib Support #1161: Split NumTheory.C into several smaller files
- Postponing because not important for CoCoA School.
- 17:15 ApCoCoA Feature #1328: New ApCoCoA UI
- Meeting today (2019-12-04).
Nguetsa reports: Interface is working, and history mechanism too. Also interfaces well ... - 15:22 CoCoA-5 Feature #1373 (In Progress): GFan also for Microsoft?
- Is it possible to make the GFan functions available in the pre-compiled release for Microsoft?
03 Dec 2019
- 14:36 CoCoA-5 Feature #1364 (Feedback): Emacs UI: start cocoa5 with system command enabled
- I have checked in a cleaned-up version of the code... Anna said it worked fine for her.
Now we can test for it for...
29 Nov 2019
- 17:21 CoCoA-5 Feature #1372 (In Progress): New function: find ?
- Should we add the function *find* (similar to C++ *find*)?
This is a quick and easy prototype (should be easy to wri...
27 Nov 2019
- 22:42 CoCoA-5 Feature #1364 (In Progress): Emacs UI: start cocoa5 with system command enabled
- Prototype sent to Anna via email, so she can test it.
- 15:53 CoCoALib Bug #1371: French students' example with GFan
- I find it quite strange that the term ordering used to obtain the same LT(I) actually looks to be far away from lex:
...
26 Nov 2019
- 15:45 CoCoALib Bug #1371: French students' example with GFan
- Just for curiosity, this lex GBasis can be computed instantly using *GBasisByHomog(I)*.
Then, together with Robbia... - 15:10 CoCoALib Bug #1371 (In Progress): French students' example with GFan
- The time taken depends on the current ring ordering!
If I create the ideal in the ring @QQ[x,y,z]@ with DegRevLex,...
25 Nov 2019
- 20:33 CoCoALib Slug #1369 (In Progress): RandomUnimodularMat is slow with many iters
- First impl is quite disappointing; the overhead/cost of matrix mult is embarrassingly high.
Should do recursion base... - 13:48 CoCoALib Slug #1369: RandomUnimodularMat is slow with many iters
- @RandomUnimodularMat(QQ,4,1000000)@ takes too long. It is faster to do @product([RandomUnimodularMat(QQ,4,10000) | j...
- 13:45 CoCoALib Slug #1369 (In Progress): RandomUnimodularMat is slow with many iters
- @RandomUnimodularMat@ becomes too slow when number of iters is high.
Try a divide-and-conquer approach. - 17:46 CoCoALib Bug #1371: French students' example with GFan
- Just for completeness here is the input:...
- 17:44 CoCoALib Bug #1371 (In Progress): French students' example with GFan
- I have just tried the French students' example as argument to @GroebnerFanIdeals@, and it computed all 167 GBases qui...
- 16:35 CoCoALib Design #1370: RingID counter increased inside some functions
- John Abbott wrote:
> We could perhaps have two counters: one for "user created" rings and one for "internal" rings. ... - 14:35 CoCoALib Design #1370: RingID counter increased inside some functions
- We could perhaps have two counters: one for "user created" rings and one for "internal" rings. Or perhaps just posit...
- 14:32 CoCoALib Design #1370 (New): RingID counter increased inside some functions
- Each ring in CoCoALib has a unique ring-ID (machine integer).
Some functions (_e.g._ *@syz@*) create new rings int...
24 Nov 2019
- 13:11 CoCoA-5 Support #1368 (Resolved): Improve manual for mod
- The solution to Ange's problem is to compute @mod(a-b,p)@; this will be zero iff @a@ and @b@ are congruent modulo @p@...
- 13:04 CoCoA-5 Support #1368 (In Progress): Improve manual for mod
- Currently the manual and the implementation are incompatible. The manual says that the remainder is always non-negat...
- 12:58 CoCoA-5 Support #1368 (Closed): Improve manual for mod
- The manual entry for *@mod@* needs to be improved.
Ange recently reported that *@mod(a,p) = mod(b,p)@* did not wor... - 12:51 CoCoA-5 Feature #1367: CoCoA-5.3.0: release linked with more recent version of normaliz
- I'm hoping that this should be easy (at least on Linux).
On my linux box, compilation and linking work fine with nor... - 12:49 CoCoA-5 Feature #1367 (Closed): CoCoA-5.3.0: release linked with more recent version of normaliz
- The last release was linked with an "old" version of normaliz. Make the next release with a more recent version (_e....
- 12:46 CoCoA-5 Design #1352 (Resolved): cocoa5 (launch) script: sleep time
- I have just tried @xterm -e ./cocoa5@, and now prefer a 4 second wait after printing the message (perhaps it should b...
22 Nov 2019
- 15:35 CoCoALib Design #1366: Should configure remove the file ERR_MESGS if it’s empty?
- I have changed my copy of @configure@.
I'll try it a few times before checking in...
- 13:57 CoCoALib Design #1366: Should configure remove the file ERR_MESGS if it’s empty?
- John Abbott wrote:
> Should configure always remove @ERR_MESGS@?
sounds good to me
- 12:26 CoCoALib Design #1366 (In Progress): Should configure remove the file ERR_MESGS if it’s empty?
- Should configure always remove @ERR_MESGS@?
After looking quickly at the code, it seems that the file is used only...
21 Nov 2019
- 18:51 CoCoALib Design #1366 (Closed): Should configure remove the file ERR_MESGS if it’s empty?
- The configuration progress produces a file called *ERR_MESGS* which should contain, well, the error messages.
Should... - 14:17 CoCoA-5 Support #1365 (New): Package EdgeIdeal not documented
- While preparing to present "graph colouring" I discovered a few mins ago that *@ChromaticNumber@* is a package-export...
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