I've made some updates on the bug tracker following comments there.  Is
there anything I should do to help people take another look at the patch
and hopefully push it through acceptance?

- Pavel Panchekha


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:20 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpfl...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:07:31 AM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote:
> >>
> >> I for one would really like smalljac to be in Sage.
> >>
> > +1
> >
> > And with PARI 2.6.0 coming, well also have fast point counting for
> elliptic
> > curve in small characteristic.
> >
> > One issue raised on the Trac ticket: smalljac is 64 bits only, so can we
> > make it an optional (and not only experimental) spkg?
>
> I don't agree.  I think we *can* make it standard.  It will just
> require more work and more thought.
> All smalljac does is provide a *faster* implementation of functions
> already in sage.
> On 64-bit it will get built and used -- on 32-bit it won't get built,
> and instead we'll fall
> back to using existing functionality.
>
>  -- William
>
> > I'd say most computers are 64 bits anyway now... so I would not mind it
> > being optional.
> > But does it really change anything anyway? except for the fact that Drew
> > Sutherland might be more pleased if the package is optional rather than
> > experimental?
> > I don't think we have any specific license requirement either for
> optional
> > and experimental spkg, do we?
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