[mpir-devel] Re: minimality guarantee for new xgcd?

2009-01-13 Thread jason
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 19:26:07 Carl Witty wrote: > On Jan 13, 2:38 am, ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com wrote: > > > > The other issue here is that there are multiple algorithms here and > > > > it is quite likely that very small examples will use the basic xgcd > > > > which may well guarantee mini

[mpir-devel] Re: minimality guarantee for new xgcd?

2009-01-13 Thread Carl Witty
On Jan 13, 2:38 am, ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com wrote: > > > The other issue here is that there are multiple algorithms here and it > > > is quite likely that very small examples will use the basic xgcd which > > > may well guarantee minimality. Only if you have say hundreds of > > > thousands of bi

[mpir-devel] Re: Compile fails with --enable-fat

2009-01-13 Thread Bill Hart
Hi Case, Thanks very much for looking into this for us!! I'll do my best to get something committed to trunk by way of a fix in the next couple of days. Will look into documenting the issue you mention. Bill. 2009/1/13 Case Vanhorsen : > > I found the underlying cause of the problems with --en

[mpir-devel] Re: minimality guarantee for new xgcd?

2009-01-13 Thread jason
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 02:23:44 mabshoff wrote: > On Jan 12, 2:36 pm, Bill Hart wrote: > > Hi, > > > What Jason is saying (I think) is that currently xgcd (not gcd) > > doesn't use Moller's patches as such. It will in future, but not at > > the moment. So whatever guarantees you had before, y