Straight-line programs with memory and matrix Bruhat decomposition

We advocate that straight-line programs designed for algebraic computations should be accompanied by a comprehensive complexity analysis that takes into account both the number of fundamental algebraic operations needed, as well as memory requirements arising during evaluation. We introduce an approach for formalising this idea and, as illustration, construct and analyse straight-line programs for the Bruhat decomposition of d × d matrices with determinant 1 over a finite field of order q that have length O(d log(q)) and require storing only O(log(q)) matrices during evaluation.