I am just going to state the same thing again: we do not currently believe the superoptimiser will work on Windows, even if it is ported. People are obviously welcome to try.
As always, we are limited by our resources and by the nature of the problem itself, not by our willingness to do this or that. I welcome volunteers to contribute whether on Windows or any other system. So far we have a couple of serious applicants for the six month position to replace Alex. I simply don't know if we will be lucky and hire someone with Windows development experience. I don't personally have any other resources I can direct towards MPIR at present. Volunteers welcome! Bill. On 12 May 2016 at 16:36, degski <deg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 May 2016 at 16:51, Brian Gladman <b...@gladman.plus.com> wrote: > > That seems more than a little lukewarm to me and says, in effect, we >> don't much care whether you do this or not. >> > > >> Am I reading too much into your reluctance to comment on whether 'MPIR >> on Windows x64 has a future'? > > > I've been following MPIR since its inception. As I understood it from the > start, the purpose of MPIR was to provide GMP (a drop-in replacement and) > performance on Windows platforms. This at the time our Swedish friend was > getting ever more reluctant to make any concessions from his "Linux is the > best stance" to accomodate a performant GMP on Windows/VC. I lost it (the > way MPIR was heading) by the time Linux seemed to be taking over as a > focus. I think I'm correct if I say that we can safely leave good > number-crunching on Linux to the Swedes with confidence. They do a (very) > good job. GMP is integrated into GCC/G++ nowadays. Trying to replicate that > (be a me-too) seems futile to me. > > Brian, you have my support, but I'm not clever enough to contribute > un-fortunately :-( > > degski > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
