[mpir-devel] Re: MPIR-2.5 Plan

2011-09-28 Thread jason
On Sep 12, 2:52 am, jason wrote: > Hi > > I've removed all the defines HAVE_HOST_CPU_* , except those left > behind in the msvc build directory. > Some sacrifices were made , our system would of handled them , but as > they were only minor optimizations for very old cpus's (ie 386,486), I > didn't

Re: [mpir-devel] Fwd: Performance loss

2011-09-28 Thread Jason
On Thursday 29 September 2011 06:35:19 Jason wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2011 23:07:46 Bill Hart wrote: > > The GMP gcd code is not only faster than that in MPIR, it is better. > > It's much more cleanly coded. I think MPIR should switch to using the > > GMP code. > > > > It's unfortunate t

Re: [mpir-devel] Fwd: Performance loss

2011-09-28 Thread Jason
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 23:07:46 Bill Hart wrote: > The GMP gcd code is not only faster than that in MPIR, it is better. > It's much more cleanly coded. I think MPIR should switch to using the > GMP code. > > It's unfortunate that I spent so much time on taking Niels' code and > adding exte

Re: [mpir-devel] Fwd: Performance loss

2011-09-28 Thread Bill Hart
The GMP gcd code is not only faster than that in MPIR, it is better. It's much more cleanly coded. I think MPIR should switch to using the GMP code. It's unfortunate that I spent so much time on taking Niels' code and adding extended GCD and dealing with normalisation and so on, but didn't have ti

Re: [mpir-devel] Fwd: Performance loss

2011-09-28 Thread Jeff Gilchrist
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Jason wrote: > I found a performance loss of mpir 2.4.0 compared to gmp 4.3.2. when running > gmp bench 0.2 gcd examples on a Core 2 Duo T6400, 2Ghz, 4GB Ram Notebook with > Ubuntu 11.04, 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686, gcc 4.5.2. I'm not sure how GCD code compares i

[mpir-devel] Fwd: Performance loss

2011-09-28 Thread Jason
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Performance loss Date: Wednesday 28 September 2011, 16:08:24 From: "Martin Lee" To: thempirt...@gmail.com Hi, I found a performance loss of mpir 2.4.0 compared to gmp 4.3.2. when running gmp bench 0.2 gcd examples on a Core 2 Duo T6400, 2Ghz,

[mpir-devel] Re: MPFR_C++ mpir2.4.0 Help wanted

2011-09-28 Thread Cactus
Hi Ludo, It is hard to help you as I am using the latest versions of MPIR, MPFR and MPFRC++ with Visual Studio 2010. I am wondering why you have not upgraded from VC++ Express 2005 to VC++ Express 2010? If it is failing only in the linking step, maybe you have not added mpir.lib and/or mpf

[mpir-devel] Fwd: MPFR_C++ mpir2.4.0 Help wanted

2011-09-28 Thread Jason
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Fwd: MPFR_C++ mpir2.4.0 Help wanted Date: Wednesday 28 September 2011, 10:01:08 From: Ludovic GIRAUD To: thempirt...@gmail.com I tried to follow these steps http://gladman.plushost.co.uk/oldsite/computing/gmp4win.php to get mpfr going in c++ u

[mpir-devel] Fwd: MPFR_C++ mpir2.4.0 Help wanted

2011-09-28 Thread Jason
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: MPFR_C++ mpir2.4.0 Help wanted Date: Wednesday 28 September 2011, 09:57:04 From: Ludovic GIRAUD To: thempirt...@gmail.com Hi, I'm using Visual C++ express editiion 2005 under windows and I needed to use big numbers like 1000^{1000} with a maxim