Hi, I looked over the code. The code implements what is the world's fastest general purpose prime_pi for a practical range of numbers -- it's much faster than Mathematica, or anything else available in general purpose software. However, it is really mainly a first very rough draft, in that it still hardcodes explicitly paths, etc., and will need to be *completely gone over* line by line by a very experienced Sage developer. That said, all the really *hard work* that requires specialized knowledge about number theory has already been done. What's left is a lot of work that requires an extremely good knowledge of Python and Sage.
Kevin is happy to share copyright credit with somebody who wants to help. Any volunteers? The total code length is about 800 lines including comments. This could be a good "case study" for the developer's guide. We could have the "before" and "after", and explanation of each thing done. -- William On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 3:58 AM, kstueve <kevin.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I added a zip file with the code to my sagemath directory and a note > to the trac server. Thanks for your comments Georg and Robert > Bradshaw! I think I'll need some help making the build scripts for > every possible operating system and platform. Thanks for being > patient with this being my first Sage contribution. > Kevin Stueve > > On Sep 27, 12:20 am, gsw <georgswe...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Well, >> >> hopefully my review comments are helpful! >> >> Cheers, >> Georg > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
