bug#12350: Composites identified as primes in factor.c (when HAVE_GMP)

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/07/2012 07:19 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:

There have been enough changes (mostly typo fixes) that I'm re-posting
these for review before I push.  Also, I added this sentence to NEWS
about the performance hit, too

     The fix makes factor somewhat slower (~25%) for ranges of consecutive
     numbers, and up to 8 times slower for some worst-case individual numbers.

Thanks for collating all the tweaks.
+1

Pádraig.