I've opened #15574 for updating FLINT in Sage. It should be trivial, though I've had no time to craft an spkg yet (or rather make what's needed in the new workflow).
On Saturday, December 21, 2013 10:10:09 PM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote: > > Dear all, > > We are pleased to announce the release of flint 2.4. > > FLINT is a C library for arithmetic in support of Number Theory, including > polynomial arithmetic and linear algebra over Z, Z/nZ, Q, p-adics, q-adics, > F_q, and univariate factorisation over those rings. It depends on GMP or > MPIR and MPFR. > > There's a vast array of new features in this release, which we try to > summarise below. > > Source code: > > http://flintlib.org/flint-2.4.tar.gz > > Documentation (624 pp.): > > http://flintlib.org/flint-2.4.pdf > > The flint-2.4 release contains around 220,000 lines of code. > > Selected benchmarks are available on our **new website**: > > http://flintlib.org/ > > Happy Christmas, > > The FLINT Team. > > Major New Features (1479 new commits) > ===================================== > > Here are the major new features provided by the 2.4 release: > > * C++ expressions template wrapper [1] > > * Fast factorisation of polynomials over Z/nZ [2, 3] > > * improved p-adics [4] > > * polynomials/matrices over p-adics [4] > > * qadics [4] > > * Finite fields (small and large F_q), polynomials/matrices over F_q [4, > 5, 6] > > * Finite fields with Zech logarithm representation [6] > > * Fast factorisation of polynomials over F_q [6] > > * Faster Brent-Kung modular composition [2] > > * New prime sieving code [7] > > * Lambert-W function [7] > > * Precomputed inverses for polynomials and large integers [2, 8] > > * Williams' P+1 integer factoring algorithm [8] > > * Harvey's KS2/KS4 polynomial multiplication [10] > > * Faster primality testing up to 64 bits [9] > > * Support for Cygwin64 and MinGW64 > > * Support for Clang > > * Support for GMP > > * Support for Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC > > * Better ARM support > > * Support for flint extension modules, e.g: > > -- Arb -- Arbitrary-precision floating-point ball arithmetic [7] -- > floating point balls, polynomials, matrices and calculus > over real and complex numbers with rigorous error bounds, > elementry functions, Bernoulli numbers, gamma function, > zeta function, hypergeometric series, partition function > (http://fredrikj.net/arb/) > > -- ANTIC -- Algebraic Number Theory in C [8] -- > arithmetic of general number fields, binary quadratic forms, > quadratic class numbers > (https://github.com/wbhart/antic) > > -- BLAND -- Generic recursive rings [7] -- > (https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/bland) > > Contributors > ============ > > (At least) the following people contributed to flint-2.4, including code > contributions, bug reports, corrections to the documentation and patches: > > Tom Bachmann, Martin Lee, Lina Kulakova, Andres Goens, Mike Hansen, > Sebastian Pancratz, Fredrik Johansson, William Hart, Dana Jacobsen, > Michael Jacobson Jr., Mike Stillman, Jan Englehardt, Jean-Pierre Flori, > Jeroen Demeyer, Shi Bai, Qingwen Guan, Frithjof Schulze, Robert Baillie, > Oleksandr Motsak, Hans Schoenemann, Janko Boehm, Ahmad Soliman > > Acknowledgements > ================ > > [1] Tom Bachmann -- Google Summer of Code 2013 > [2] Martin Lee -- DFG Priority program SPP1489 > [3] Lina Kulakova -- Google Summer of Code 2012 > [4] Sebastian Pancratz -- ERC Grant 204083 > [5] Andres Goens -- DFG Priority program SPP1489 > [6] Mike Hansen -- Macaulay2 developers NSF Grant 1002171 > [7] Fredrik Johansson -- Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant Y464-N18 > [8] William Hart -- EPSRC Grant EP/G004870/1 and DFG Priority program > SPP1489 > [9] Dana Jacobsen's verification of flint's primality test using Feitma's > tables > [10] Code ported from David Harvey's zn_poly -- > (http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/code/zn_poly/) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
