Re: Math::Prime::FastSieve v0.12

2012-05-30 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "David Oswald" I've also taken Dana's suggestion and used unsigned longs internally (and longs as parameters). This allows Perl's built with long support to handle (theoretically) sieves up to 9.2e18. ( 2^64 / 2 --- if we were passing unsigned longs as par

Math::Prime::FastSieve v0.12

2012-05-30 Thread David Oswald
Thanks to some great patches from Dana Jacobsen (and some version numbering snafu from me), we have arrived at Math::Prime::FastSieve v0.12. Don't bother with v0.11 (I uploaded with inconsistent version numbering). v0.12 provides the following enhancements over v0.10: The prime sieve's bit vecto