Oh yes, sorry I completely forgot. tests/mpn/t-gcdext.c is the new
test which checks the normalisation.

Bill.

On 11 May 2010 20:04, Cactus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 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
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