+1, of course...

Le mardi 23 novembre 2021 à 11:26:44 UTC+1, dim...@gmail.com a écrit :

> primecount is a popular C++ library of efficient procedures to
> compute prime_pi(x), i.e. π(x),
> number of prime numbers <=x, and related functions.
> It's an optional package now. The repo is
> https://github.com/kimwalisch/primecount
>
> The default Sage implementation of prime_pi is buggy, and a very tricky 
> and old
> Cython code - see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24960
> Replacing it with the primecount implementation is the most direct way
> to fix it, and it also
> gives huge speedups. For this, primecount should be promoted from
> optional to standard.
> Primecount has a (vendored by default) dependency, a C++ library 
> primesieve,
> even more popular.
> Many distros have primesieve as a separate package, so we'd like to split
> primesieve off primecount, see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25009
>
> Any objections to this ?
> (any objector volunteers to fix Sage's buggy prime_pi :-))
>
> Thanks,
> Dima
>
> PS. in the modularization effort, the Cython interface to primecount will 
> become
> a separate PyPI package, work in progress on this is on
> https://github.com/dimpase/primecountpy
>
>
>
>
> .
>

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