On Sunday 15 March 2009 16:22:31 Bill Hart wrote: > I actually don't know what make dist does, never used it. But assuming > it makes a tarball, we need to have it make a single tarball for both > Windows and linux. It's important that we don't split the project, in > my opinion. > > Bill.
Done it . Notice though , make dist is slightly broken for yasm , but it only affects yasm docs , if we fix it we should tell the yasm team. I'll see if I can also get it to touch the *.c *.h in demos/calc automagically > > 2009/3/15 Cactus <rieman...@googlemail.com>: > > On Mar 15, 4:02 pm, Jason Moxham <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com> wrote: > >> On Saturday 14 March 2009 15:04:09 Bill Hart wrote: > >> > On 14/03/2009, Jason Moxham <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com> wrote: > >> > > On Saturday 14 March 2009 13:46:51 Bill Hart wrote: > >> > >> I've been working on converting Paul Zimmermann's implementation of > >> > >> the Bodrato-Zanoni Toom-4 algorithm to the mpn_level. > >> > >> > >> > >> I've uploaded the current code to the files section. I'm pretty > >> > >> much just going to convert the relevant functions from FLINT's fmpz > >> > >> module (in the file fmpz.c - also uploaded) into tc4_blah functions > >> > >> as required, much as I have done with fmpz_add->tc4_add. > >> > >> > >> > >> I thought I would upload it in case anyone felt like working on it > >> > >> today, as I will not be able to work on it for most of the rest of > >> > >> the day. > >> > > > >> > > When are we releasing MPIR 1.0.0 ? > >> > > >> > It's always better to release on a weekday, thus I plan to update > >> > documentation tomorrow and release Monday morning. Feel free to do the > >> > docs and tarball for a release candidate while I am away today, but > >> > don't forget to touch .c and .h files in demos/calc and remove .svn > >> > dirs. Actually there is a script in my sage.math home directory called > >> > makempir. > >> > >> make dist nearly works , I'll see if I can get it to go > >> > >> > >> The tc4_addlsh1 function has no analogue in FLINT. I think in every > >> > >> case it is used in Toom-4 it only deals with unsigned integers, > >> > >> which makes it easier to implement. > >> > > > >> > > Is this the usual mpn_addlsh_1 ? > >> > > >> > Not quite. It must also deal with operands of different lengths. > >> > > >> > >> Also, the mpn_divexacts, by 12, 18, 30, etc could probably be done > >> > >> efficiently in assembly. > >> > >> > >> > >> for example div_exact by 30 is just mul by (2^B - 1)/15, then > >> > >> divide by (2^B - 1) and shift right by 1. > >> > > > >> > > I allready have divexact by any factor of 2^B-1 , runs at 2.2c/l on > >> > > K8 , just > >> > > have to squeeze some shifts in too, or somehow combine it with the > >> > > mul > >> > > >> > Cool! > >> > > >> > >> Paul's original implementation is here: > >> > >> > >> > >>http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/software/toom4.c > >> > >> > >> > >> Note it is LGPL v2+. Thanks Paul!! > >> > >> > >> > >> I now believe a very efficient implementation of this could make > >> > >> quite a difference. > >> > > > >> > > Nice one :) > >> > > > >> > >> Bill. > > > > Should I assume that ypu are doing a Linux distribution or both a > > Linux and a Windows distribution? > > > > Do I need to prepare a Windows distribution? > > > > Brian > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
