Replace lcalc by PARI

[jdemeyer]

CC: @embray

Component: packages: standard

Branch/Commit: u/jdemeyer/replace_lcalc_by_pari @ 57769fa

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24532

[jdemeyer]

comment:2

Tests are showing that (at least for some use cases) PARI is slower than lcalc. Part of the reason is that lcalc has optimizations for specific L-functions while PARI works in much larger generality.

So replacing lcalc is a bad idea.

[jdemeyer]

Branch: u/jdemeyer/replace_lcalc_by_pari

[jdemeyer]

Commit: 57769fa

[jdemeyer]

comment:4

I'm still pushing the branch in case somebody wants to play with it.

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New commits:

57769fa

Deprecate lcalc; use PARI instead

[kiwifb]

comment:5

That's a shame. lcalc will probably become a higher and higher maintenance cost in the future - unless upstream lcalc pick up maintenance again.

[embray]

comment:6

I don't know how lcalc works at all, but maybe said optimizations can be ported upstream to PARI?

[jdemeyer]

comment:7

lcalc is not a trivial package :-) The PARI developers are aware of lcalc and what it does. So, if it would be easy, they would already have done it.