You're right: gmp-ecm is just as portable as pyecm. Sorry about that.
As for the "faster" claim, I believe I was mistaken. On some tests it
seemed to be, but upon further testing gmps-ecm is faster by a constant
factor of about 3.
Pyecm's main advantage is ease of use. I apologize for the innacurate
description (no harm intended) and will change it in the next version,
which should be coming within a few months.
Martin
Laurent Fousse wrote:
Package: pyecm
Version: 1.2.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
I noticed the following sentence in the long description:
pyecm seems to be faster than gmp-ecm on many tests and is much
more portable (it's written in Python).
Concerning the portability, I don't think it's relevant to debian
users as both programs are available in all released and unofficial
ports that I know of. I don't think it's accurate either, as python
itself is written in C just like gmp-ecm and I'd like to know a
specific plateform where python and pyecm are available and gmp-ecm is
not.
As for the "faster" claim, could you provide specific examples where
pyecm outperforms gmp-ecm? It's of particular interest to the gmp-ecm
developers. Thanks!
Regards,
Laurent.
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