Hi all, as many of you know, I've been planning my time well in advance for some time now. This helps with productivity and with general well-being.
To that end, you will find my current schedule below, followed by a discussion of aims for mpir and future plans for flint. --------------- Jan 20-22: * mpfr meeting in Nancy Jan 23-31: * finish paper on bignum division Feb 1-28: * 200-400 lines of code for project with D. Harvey * mpir-2.7.0 release March and following (unscheduled): * LLL and HNF * asymptotically fast polynomial resultant * qsieve * ANTIC (number field arithmetic: inversion, division, powering) ---------------- Plans for MPIR 2.7: Below is a list of things that need doing for MPIR. I have placed a cutoff where I think we can get to for the 2.7 release: * Fix issues reported by many people (I will put up github tickets when I return from Nancy) * Document and clean up x86_64 assembly code * Indent, clean up Jason Moxham's old C code * fft versions of mpn_mulmod_bnm1/p1 for gmp-ecm * merge toom-6 code from GMP * cpuid support for recent Intel/AMD chips * update config.guess and friends * tuning for new division code * support Cygwin64 * maintain Windows build scripts * support for latest MSVC * GMP 5.1.3 compatibility <CUTOFF -- contributions welcome> * complete overhaul and documentation of libspeed * complete overhaul of tuning code, including fixing it on platforms where it is broken * clean up and document the part of the build system that decides whether functions such as mpn_preinv_divrem_1 are available or not * add new mpir_mullo, mpir_mulhi, mpir_mulmid which yield 2 limb overflows * add montgomery multiplication * add a public interface for FFT precaching * add a public interface for division with precomputed inverse * implement new binary to decimal conversion due to Zimmermann and Bouvier ( http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00864293) * write a new assembly superoptimiser for x86_64 (to replace the one Jason had) * speed up very unbalanced multiplication * (assembly) optimise FFT * much better developer documentation, esp. mpn interface and how to add new files * parallelise FFT * update mpirbench I expect that the final release process will start around Feb 21st. ------------------------ Plans for flint-2.5 and following I haven't scheduled a release date for flint-2.5, nor figured out which features should make the release yet. I will do so as my schedule becomes clearer. * make Arb a standard extension of flint (it will still be maintained as a separate library too) * make mpfr optional in flint (disabling functionality which requires it if not available) * automate figuring out which parts of the C++ wrapper need updating (and update them) * gcov test coverage * valgrind all modules * large quadratic sieve * APR-CL primality testing * LLL and HNF * asymptotically fast polynomial resultant * faster newton division, including FFT precaching * rewrite Bland to use the Generic style generics interface * root-finding code (Mike Hansen) * use BLAS for matrices over Z/nZ for small n, if available * Shoup multiplication interface * polynomial factoring over Z (Mark van Hoeij recently announced more improvements) * better polynomial mullo, mulhi, mulmid code * fmpz_mod_mat module (some templating may be in order) * clean up documentation formatting Comments/suggestions/contributions welcome. Some of these could make GSoC projects. Any volunteers for mentors? Not sure if we already missed the application deadline for this year or not. Bill. -- 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.
