Re: [mpir-devel] Plans for mpir-2.7 and flint-2.5

2014-01-17 Thread Bill Hart
Hi David, thanks for reminding me about this. We'll want to write something very integrated with flint itself. But we'll definitely be checking out your implementation. Perhaps it is an easy matter to just port your code to flint. Also, flint is GPL 2+, so we couldn't use your code in flint with

Re: [mpir-devel] Plans for mpir-2.7 and flint-2.5

2014-01-17 Thread wraithx
On 1/17/2014 5:00 AM, Bill Hart wrote: Hi all, Plans for flint-2.5 and following * APR-CL primality testing Comments/suggestions/contributions welcome. Some of these could make GSoC projects. Any volunteers for mentors? Not sure if we already missed the application deadline for this year or n

[mpir-devel] Re: Plans for mpir-2.7 and flint-2.5

2014-01-17 Thread Bill Hart
On 17 January 2014 12:26, Fredrik Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Bill Hart > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > as many of you know, I've been planning my time well in advance for some > > time now. This helps with productivity and with general well-being. > > > > To that end, you w

[mpir-devel] Re: Plans for mpir-2.7 and flint-2.5

2014-01-17 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > Hi all, > > as many of you know, I've been planning my time well in advance for some > time now. This helps with productivity and with general well-being. > > To that end, you will find my current schedule below, followed by a > discussion of ai

[mpir-devel] Plans for mpir-2.7 and flint-2.5

2014-01-17 Thread Bill Hart
Hi all, as many of you know, I've been planning my time well in advance for some time now. This helps with productivity and with general well-being. To that end, you will find my current schedule below, followed by a discussion of aims for mpir and future plans for flint. --- Jan 20

[mpir-devel] Re: Paper on new integer division (basecase)

2014-01-17 Thread Bill Hart
Thanks John. Indeed the abstract is missing! Bill. On 17 January 2014 11:09, John Cremona wrote: > Bill, > > I think you need an early punchline -- the reader has to get to the > last page to find out that how your algorithm improves on others. I > would recommend saying something about this

[mpir-devel] Paper on new integer division (basecase)

2014-01-17 Thread Bill Hart
Hi all, I've been busy for the last few days writing up the new basecase division algorithm which I put into mpir/trunk. The paper so far is here: http://selmer.warwick.ac.uk/bignumdiv.pdf Any and all comments are welcome before Feb 20th (I know the references are incomplete). I will also write