From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA27421; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:06:04 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA27712 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:06:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aomori.annexia.org (annexia.force9.co.uk [212.56.101.183]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h53H63T00398 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:06:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rich by aomori.annexia.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19NFEN-0002XM-00; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:05:51 +0100 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:05:51 +0100 To: Michel Quercia Cc: "Yaron M. Minsky" , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Miller-Rabin primality test Message-ID: <20030603170551.GD7004@redhat.com> References: <20030603110555.GA7004@redhat.com> <1054640931.8299.30.camel@dragonfly.localdomain> <20030603185206.6c0b0c5d.michel.quercia@prepas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030603185206.6c0b0c5d.michel.quercia@prepas.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 quercia:01 yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 cornell:01 numerix:01 gmp:01 nat:01 slower:01 freshmeat:01 dbi:99 threads:01 ltd:98 0200,:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:52:06PM +0200, Michel Quercia wrote: > Le 03 Jun 2003 07:48:52 -0400 "Yaron M. Minsky" > ?crivit: > > > Anyone know what the status of Numerix is these days? Is it still > > faster than the alternatives (gmp, Nat)? > > I'm presently writing Numerix version 0.21. First measurements show that it is 20% faster than GMP 4.0.1 ... and 8% slower than GMP 4.1.2. ETA is end of August. Be cool if you could include some of the simpler standard number theory tests, such as primality testing, in your library. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Red Hat Inc. (London) and Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ http://www.annexia.org/ Freshmeat projects: http://freshmeat.net/users/rwmj PTHRLIB is a library for writing small, efficient and fast servers in C. HTTP, CGI, DBI, lightweight threads: http://www.annexia.org/freeware/pthrlib/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners