[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Jason Moxham
On Saturday 06 June 2009 17:43:07 Fredrik Johansson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Jason Moxham wrote: > > Looking at the existing toom code there are a lot of > > mpn_addmul_1(,2^k) > > we should change this to > > mpn_addlsh_n(,k) > > and write asm functions for this , for K8

[mpir-devel] MPIR 1.2 released

2009-06-06 Thread Bill Hart
The MPIR team is proud to release MPIR 1.2, which is available on our website: http://www.mpir.org/ The new features of MPIR 1.2 include: * Further improvements to assembly support for K8/K10/Core2/Pentium 4 including improvements to multiplication and division by 2 limbs * Merged the new FFT

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Jeff Gilchrist
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Cactus wrote: > It may be OK since it seems that this stuff is not essential - it is > pretty close to building in Windows x64 now that I have changed some > library subroutine names. I forgot about the assembler. If you can get it working in Windows x64 that wou

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Cactus
On Jun 6, 10:25 pm, Bill Hart wrote: > The long doubles may be a problem, but not the assembler. As it will > only be for benchmarking MPIR, we can strip the assembler and replace > it with C. > > Long doubles are a problem on many platforms. But we can probably find > a way around using them.

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Bill Hart
The long doubles may be a problem, but not the assembler. As it will only be for benchmarking MPIR, we can strip the assembler and replace it with C. Long doubles are a problem on many platforms. But we can probably find a way around using them. Bill. 2009/6/6 Cactus : > > > > On Jun 6, 8:35 pm

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Cactus
On Jun 6, 8:35 pm, Jeff Gilchrist wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jason Moxham > wrote: > > Jeff Gilchrist has a real world benchmark , ie something thats run for > > purposes other than generating benchmarks. I would like to see a few of > > these > > in our benchmark suite. > > I

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Bill Hart
2009/6/6 Jeff Gilchrist : > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > >> Thanks, both your code and the code from that site sound good. We >> should write to the author and see whether they would be happy to >> contribute it to the project. > > Should I be sending my code to Brian to in

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Jeff Gilchrist
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > Thanks, both your code and the code from that site sound good. We > should write to the author and see whether they would be happy to > contribute it to the project. Should I be sending my code to Brian to include in his new benchmark? Do you w

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Bill Hart
Thanks, both your code and the code from that site sound good. We should write to the author and see whether they would be happy to contribute it to the project. Bill. 2009/6/6 Jeff Gilchrist : > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jason Moxham > wrote: > >> Jeff Gilchrist has a real world bench

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Jeff Gilchrist
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jason Moxham wrote: > Jeff Gilchrist has a real world benchmark , ie something thats run for > purposes other than generating benchmarks. I would like to see a few of these > in our benchmark suite. I would be happy to donate my code for that purpose. It isn't v

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Jason Moxham wrote: > Looking at the existing toom code there are a lot of > mpn_addmul_1(,2^k) > we should change this to > mpn_addlsh_n(,k) > and write asm functions for this , for K8 this would be a macro to call > addmul_1 , and for core2,K10 a new func

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Bill Hart
2009/6/6 Jason Moxham : > > On Saturday 06 June 2009 00:14:58 Bill Hart wrote: >> MPIR 1.2 looks to be passing all its tests, so should be out >> officially over the weekend, so time to think about the next >> release >> >> There will be an MPIR 1.2.1 which will merge Robert Gerbicz' >> contri

[mpir-devel] Re: Looking towards MPIR 1.3

2009-06-06 Thread Jason Moxham
On Saturday 06 June 2009 00:14:58 Bill Hart wrote: > MPIR 1.2 looks to be passing all its tests, so should be out > officially over the weekend, so time to think about the next > release > > There will be an MPIR 1.2.1 which will merge Robert Gerbicz' > contributed code, "turn on" some improve