On Apr 28, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/28/2014 07:53 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> 
>> Meanwhile I suppose that I could convert my test file and use the 
>> sun.misc.UU{En,De}coder classes to handle it in the test.
> 
> Uh-oh, we have java.util.Base64 these days.

D’oh. I should have known as I was working on something in the code base 
recently.

> But in this case, it's probably simpler to use this code snippet instead of 
> adding 235 KiB of incompressible binary data to the source code.
> 
>   […]
> 
> (I hope it's correct, but you get the idea…)
> 
> Anyway, for the first 100K primes, it runs in roughly 400 ms on my machine, 
> including JVM startup and teardown.  That should be completely negligible 
> compared to actually testing all the numbers for primality using a any 
> non-sieve algorithm.

Thanks. I should have thought of that myself. I’ll re-work the thing and 
re-post an updated patch.

Regards,

Brian

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