On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > The single biggest improvement in my mind would be made to MPIR. And I > know the MPIR devels would absolutely love to have them contribute. > > Jason and Brian have been working very hard on simplifying MPIR so > that it can be more easily modified. > > There are some instances in flint that would benefit. If he gets in > contact with me I could discuss this. The overall affect on Sage would > not be quite as great. It would only affect certain types of > polynomials on Sparc. But it certainly needs to be done. > > Pari, ECL and MPFR would all directly benefit from speeding up MPIR. I > think of the three, MPFR is the one most likely to have assembly code. > > I believe ATLAS does autotuning, so it would speed up linbox > automatically. There is some assembly code in NTL I think (or could > be). However most of the relevant functionality is not used any more. > > There is a possibility for speeding up M4RI, in theory. However, it > has been difficult to beat the C compiler on that project.
As a less biased voice, I'll second the opinion that MPIR is the project that has the most to gain from this, and would also be the place that would provide the most benefit to Sage. - Robert -- 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
