On 03/04/2013 11:04 AM, Brian Burkhalter wrote: > Probably a good idea. > > But seriously this patch is #5 in my queue. We do intend to get to it > this spring. > > Brian > > On Mar 2, 2013, at 4:41 AM, Tim Buktu wrote: > >> It's been over a year since my original patch, and it's been over 3 >> years since Alan posted his patch. I think I'll stop holding my >> breath.
That's good to hear. By the way, in case you didn't know the history of this bugfix, the leading researcher in the world in Toom-Cook and other techniques for high-performance multiplication, Marco Bodrato, and his colleagues, reviewed my parts of the patch (Karatsuba and Toom-Cook multiplication, Karatsuba and Toom-Cook squaring) and said they were "very clean." I also ran hundreds of gigabytes of test cases through it (repeatedly,) taking many days, and cross-checked my multiplication routines against several other packages including GMP and previous versions of BigInteger. -- Alan Eliasen elia...@mindspring.com http://futureboy.us/
