Re: [mpir-devel] Re: MPIR wish list

2010-07-08 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Jason Moxham wrote: > > maybe , I would have to look it up , basically mulhi goes like this > > calculate mul_short (either basecase or divide and conquer) > mul_short is like mul_high but with 2 extra digits calculated , these 2 > extra > digits give enough info t

Re: [mpir-devel] Re: MPIR wish list

2010-07-08 Thread Jason Moxham
On Thursday 08 July 2010 16:00:46 Fredrik Johansson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jason Moxham wrote: > > The mulhi and mullo are exact unlike the mulmid , we could do an > > approximate > > mulhi which would be marginally faster. > > > > Jason > > Yes, that would be very nice. I assume

Re: [mpir-devel] Re: MPIR wish list

2010-07-08 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jason Moxham wrote: > > The mulhi and mullo are exact unlike the mulmid , we could do an > approximate > mulhi which would be marginally faster. > > Jason > Yes, that would be very nice. I assume approximate mulhi would be give the exact result +/- 1? Fredrik --

Re: [mpir-devel] Re: MPIR wish list

2010-07-08 Thread Jason Moxham
On Thursday 08 July 2010 08:26:02 Fredrik Johansson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Jason Moxham wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 July 2010 10:49:35 Bill Hart wrote: > > > Frederick is working on mpz_mulhi, however one thing we *really* need > > > (since the interesting case for his applications

Re: [mpir-devel] Re: MPIR wish list

2010-07-08 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Jason Moxham wrote: > On Tuesday 06 July 2010 10:49:35 Bill Hart wrote: > > Frederick is working on mpz_mulhi, however one thing we *really* need > > (since the interesting case for his applications is for a small number > > of limbs) is an x86_64 assembly version