Maxima 5.16.3 release --- enourmous slowdown of gf-package
Subject: Maxima 5.16.3 release --- enourmous slowdown of gf-package
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:09:26 -0600
On 8/25/08, Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> 5.16.3 passed now all my tests, but an enourmous
> slowdown happened with package gf, which renders
> it unusable:
> So for example before a single Rijndael-sbox operation
> took 0.2 s (which was already quite slow), while it now takes
> around 18 s.
If you can give an example which demonstrates the slowdown,
that would be very helpful.
There were only a few minor changes in the gf code, if I'm not
mistaken, so I'm optimistic that we'll be able to identify the
cause of the problem.
Robert Dodier