On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Jason Moxham<[email protected]> wrote:

> Looking at the existing toom code there are a lot of
> mpn_addmul_1(....,2^k)
> we should change this to
> mpn_addlsh_n(....,k)
> and write asm functions for this , for K8 this would be a macro to call
> addmul_1 , and for core2,K10 a new function
> Various other combinations can be done faster than we do at the moment , we
> just need to choose the most common or the easiest.

On a related note, I would find an mpz_add(sub)lsh_n function extremely useful,
for addition of floating-point numbers with different magnitude / exponent.
Doing this by zero padding (possibly also forcing reallocation) is a pretty big
waste of electricity.

Fredrik

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