Sage's factor currently just calls pari which makes no use of anything
anywhere else in sage.  It would be nice if somebody were to change this,
but I have seen many people try and fail.

On Saturday, October 29, 2011, Rolandb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What the status is of factoring integers: from 1 up to 80-100 digits?
> Ticket #5310 seems to address this by implementing Msieve, but I
> noticed no activity lately.
>
> For instance n.trail_division() speeds up calculations a lot, but it
> seems not be integrated with a general approach. This implies that for
> small integers up to 10^8 the speed of n.trail_division() seems not to
> be used by factor().
>
> To illustrate my point, please look at the following example.
>
> def fastfactor(n):
>    if n in [1,0,-1]: return [(n,1)]
>
>    uit=[]
>    d=1
>    while n not in [1,d]:
>        d=n.trial_division()
>        e=1
>        n=n//d
>        while n%d==0:
>            e+=1
>            n=n//d
>        uit.append((d,e))
>    if n>1: uit.append((n,1))
>    return uit
>
> m=6
> timeit('for i in xsrange(10^m,10^m+1000): fastfactor(i)')
> timeit('for i in xsrange(10^m,10^m+1000): list(i.factor())')
>
> 25 loops, best of 3: 8.15 ms per loop
> 25 loops, best of 3: 30.6 ms per loop
>
> I sincerely hope that release 4.7.3 will also focus on speeding up the
> most used functions like factor, but also uniq, gcd, xgcd and other
> elementary functions.
>
> Thanks in advance for your informative reply.
>
> Roland
>
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