I did some more penetration testing to see how far the word about MPIR has gotten. Of course by now there's a huge number of sage related pages mentioning MPIR as well as oodles of online software lists which mention MPIR. There's also my website and infinite numbers of copies of MPIR discussion archives. Here are some other mentions: http://www.math.jmu.edu/~martin/ - Homepage - Jason Martin
http://gladman.plushost.co.uk/oldsite/computing/gmp4win.php http://software.intel.com/ru-ru/forums/contest-parallel-racing/topic/66073/reply/85678/- Intel software network (Russian) http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/factoring/index.html - Windows Factoring Software Binaries - Jeff Gilchrist http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=11740 - Discussion comparing GMP-ECM with mpir-1.1.0 and gmp-4.3.0 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017058/building-gmp-library-with-visual-studio- A question posted by someone about whether MPIR might be a valid alternative to GMP on Windows, but noting TG's nasty comment on his website http://lwn.net/Articles/317070/ - support for MPIR in GMPy http://gmplib.org/ - the original and the best; I quote, "This GMP fork might be an alternative to the real GMP for some Windoze users, but they'll have to deal with attention-seeking FUD against GMP" http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=188616 - more discussion of MPIR with GMP-ECM http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/421067e6-e582-4e52-9739-53b0fbe26780- someone recommending use of MPIR on Windows MSVC http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48964 - Why PHP uses MPIR not GMP http://www.nabble.com/GMP-on-OpenSolaris-tc22596123.html - discussion of confusion over licensing, including someone who doesn't know the difference between COPYING and COPYING.lib (I admit this is highly confusing). http://forum.i2p2.de/viewtopic.php?t=3362&sid=3686b6526795d84ca090b1e4e63a3327- better native support for Windows http://www.williamstein.org/talks/2009-mega/megatalk.pdf - Sage MEGA talk - William Sein http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=99423&tstart=30 - discussion of OpenSSL's bignum library vs GMP and mention of using MPIR which had optimisation before GMP http://www.loria.fr/~gaudry/software.en.html - reference to an old version of MPIR with Pierrick's patches http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2009/015544.html - discussion of the Fat binary advantages of MPIR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Multi-Precision_Library - with links to MPIR and a description of what GMP lacks http://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-bugs/2009-February/001276.html - seems to mention MPIR as an alternative to GMP re compiling on Solaris 10 with Sun Studio 12 http://iwaokimura.blogspot.com/2008/05/gmpforkmpir.html - no idea, it's in Japanese, but I understand the GMP fork MPIR bit http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1047203/best-bignum-library-to-solve-project-euler-problems-in-c- "the magical GMP for Windows" http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/NSF_WS_pres/Lichtblau_NSF_Workshop_2009.pdf - talk by Daniel Lichtblau which mentions MPIR http://ja.doukaku.org/comment/3034/ - again no idea, in Japanese, but it's code for doing something, which uses the C++ layer in MPIR explicitly http://iwaokimura.blogspot.com/2009/04/mpir-10-gmp-replacement.html - again Japanese mentioning MPIR 1.0 as a GMP replacement http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/factoring/pseudoprimes.html - Jeff Gilchrist's page on pseudoprime enumeration, explicitly using MPIR http://na-inet.jp/weblog/archives/001352.html - In japanese, quoting the part of our FAQ about TG's rude comment on his webpage http://osdir.com/ml/debian-italian/2009-04/msg00364.html - in Italian, discussing licensing of GMP vs MPIR http://fredrik-j.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html - Fredrik Johansson's blog mentioning MPIR http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1127871221 - Someone in Japan recommending MPIR for Visual Studio build of "GMP" http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Multiple_Precision_Arithmetic_Library - German wikipedia, I think it says MPIR for those interested in the latest hardware architecture http://slo-tech.com/forum/t339260 - strewth I don't even know what language this is (Slovenian?) .... Bill. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
