I have a Core i7 intel chip.
I assume that Nehalem build is preferred over Core2, since i7 is a descendent 
of Nehalem rather than the Xeon core.  Is that right?

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From: mpir-devel@googlegroups.com [mailto:mpir-devel@googlegroups.com] On 
Behalf Of Bill Hart
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 3:09 PM
To: mpir-devel; sage-de...@googlegroups.com; flint-devel
Subject: [mpir-devel] MPIR 2.6.0 released + appeal for volunteers

Hi all,

After a very long alpha/beta release cycle, MPIR 2.6.0 has finally been 
released!

It is available from our website http://mpir.org/

This release is dedicated to the memory of Jason Moxham who passed away 
recently.

The main new features in this release are:

* new FFT implementation for multiplying huge integers
* better support for 64 bit integers on Windows 64
* Python build generator for MSVC builds
* various bug fixes

Please report any bugs/success stories on our development list.

The future of MPIR
==================

As a result of the loss of Jason Moxham, the core MPIR development team has 
shrunk to two members (there are of course also numerous other developers who 
help us test our releases and who submit bug reports every release cycle).

Brian Gladman and I agree that two core developers is not enough for 
sustainable development of MPIR.
Therefore we would like to make an appeal for volunteers to join our team. We 
are especially looking to find some talented assembly language programmers and 
individuals with experience coding low-level fast arithmetic in C.

We recognise that there aren't many such people out there, but then again, we 
don't need many to take MPIR forward into the future.

We have also recently decided to switch to using Git for our repository. This 
means it will be possible to fork MPIR trivially on GitHub and work in 
independent branches. We hope this will make MPIR development more streamlined.

We are open to other suggestions about how MPIR might be improved for future 
development effort.

If you are interested in helping out, please contact us on our Google Groups 
development list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/mpir-devel

or email myself or Brian privately.

Bill Hart.

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