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Last modified 9 days ago
#26927 needs_work defect
nf -> float conversion should be fast
Reported by: | vdelecroix | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
Component: | number theory | Keywords: | |
Cc: | slelievre | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Vincent Delecroix | Reviewers: | Daniel Krenn |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | failing doctests, more doctests |
Branch: | u/vdelecroix/26927 (Commits, GitHub, GitLab) | Commit: | a599034fa9a51fdcbe7cba9db9f2bfee33f2bde5 |
Dependencies: | Stopgaps: |
Description (last modified by )
Given a quadratic number field, conversion to Python floating point is terribly slow compared to the more complicated MPFI interval floating point conversion
sage: %timeit float(a) 1000 loops, best of 3: 224 µs per loop sage: %timeit RIF(a) 1000000 loops, best of 3: 919 ns per loop
With the branch applied
sage: %timeit float(a) 1000000 loops, best of 3: 245 ns per loop
(see also #26925 for MPFR floating point)
Change History (19)
comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by
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Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. This was a forced push. New commits:
a599034 | 26927: faster float conversion for quad nf elts
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comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by
I agree it should be fast, but I'm not sure it should be *that* fast. It's not so strange to expect that if they transfer an algebraic number into RealField(100)
, they actually get something on which (close to) 100 digits are correct. That can be quite tricky, especially with high powers of fundamental units, where one conjugate will have large absolute value (easy to compute) and the other has small absolute value. If you compute these by first writing out the unit as a+b*sqrt(d)
and then compute the embedding, it's quite a bit of work to get the precision right (due to a large amount of cancellation). Of course, if you have the element as a power, it's much easier: compute embedding and then take power.
If people need super-fast coversions, they should probably have a recipe to do so. I don't think the standard coercions are the place to sacrifice accuracy for speed.
comment:5 follow-up: 6 Changed 4 years ago by
I agree with you. But this ticket is *not* about conversion to RealField(100)
but to Python floats. See #29625 for the relevant ticket.
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by
Replying to vdelecroix:
I agree with you. But this ticket is *not* about conversion to
RealField(100)
but to Python floats. See #29625 for the relevant ticket.
Oh, sorry. The same applies to the 53 bits that float has, though. So I'd suggest to share the same code between the two.
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comment:9 Changed 4 years ago by
Reviewers: | → Daniel Krenn |
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Status: | needs_review → needs_work |
Work issues: | → failing doctests, more doctests |
Code looks good to me, but there are some failing doctests says the patchbot. I think they are all related to the exception raised in case of complex values.
And, there should be doctests covering the else-branch of the outer if, and maybe one as well which raises the exception.
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New commits:
26925: faster float conversion for quad nf elts