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commit d65f8728210475f80f8ac411bb882534e61149c1 Author: Dana Jacobsen <d...@acm.org> Date: Sun Jul 8 16:23:00 2012 -0600 Recommend Math::BigInt::GMP and try to use in tests --- lib/Math/Prime/Util.pm | 8 ++++++-- t/81-bignum.t | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/Math/Prime/Util.pm b/lib/Math/Prime/Util.pm index 7057bbf..672931a 100644 --- a/lib/Math/Prime/Util.pm +++ b/lib/Math/Prime/Util.pm @@ -1267,8 +1267,12 @@ will turn off bigint support for those functions. Those functions will then go directly to the XS versions, which will speed up very small inputs a B<lot>. Having run these functions on many versions of Perl, if you're using anything -older than Perl 5.14, I would recommend you upgrade if you want bigint support. -There are a lot of brittle behaviors on 5.12.4 and earlier. +older than Perl 5.14, I would recommend you upgrade if you are using bigints +a lot. There are some brittle behaviors on 5.12.4 and earlier. + +I also recommend installing L<Math::BigInt::GMP> and writing +C< use bigint try => 'GMP'> to have bigint see if it can use GMP. Large +modular exponentiation is much, much faster using the GMP or Pari backends. diff --git a/t/81-bignum.t b/t/81-bignum.t index bc71f0d..75d7f7e 100644 --- a/t/81-bignum.t +++ b/t/81-bignum.t @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ plan tests => 0 + 12 + # random primes 0; -use bigint; # <--------------- We're testing large numbers here: > 2^64 +# Using GMP makes these tests run about 2x faster on my machine +use bigint try => 'GMP'; # <--------------- large numbers ahead! > 2^64 use Math::Prime::Util qw/ is_prob_prime -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libmath-prime-util-perl.git _______________________________________________ Pkg-perl-cvs-commits mailing list Pkg-perl-cvs-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-perl-cvs-commits