On May 11, 7:34 pm, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > I got the final cases of the xgcd normalisation sorted. The test code > has been run on large sizes for ages and ages and everything now > passes. > > I've also added a number of new tuning cutoffs for GCD and XGCD to > MPIR. However, at this point the code runs much slower than what we > had before. This is nothing to do with the normalisation but the new > tuning cutoffs (it affects GCD and XGCD). I will try to rearrange the > code tonight when I get home to fix this and restore the earlier > performance. The idea is it should run faster, not slower, when this > is done correctly. > > We'll need to tune for all our architectures once this is working. > > As for a release, is there anyone who would like to do (or learn how > to do) an MPIR release. It is relatively straightforward and I can > explain it in detail. We would like a volunteer to do this for this > release cycle as it is very bad practice to have a single person in > charge of all releases. If anything happens to that person, or they > become unavailable, the project grinds to a halt. > > Please let us know if you would like to volunteer for this. I'll > advertise again in a new thread once I have the tuning sorted, at > which time it will be time to start the release process (for this mini > release). > > For Brian, there should be no changes to the Windows code, except for > the new tuning cutoffs. But these are not available yet. I'll let you > know when they are done for linux.
There appears to be a new test as well - is this correct? Brian -- 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.
