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Bump request was open for a while already: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542682 |
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I bumped it yesterday, is the ntl-62 compat patch essential? |
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Patrick reported a test failure that I cannot reproduce yet: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545378 |
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Do you know anything about it? |
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On 03/04/15 00:53, François Bissey wrote: |
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> Speaking of flint would you mind importing 2.4.5 from the sage-on-gentoo |
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> overlay to the main tree. I should have opened a bump request last month |
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> when it was released. |
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> |
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> François |
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> |
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>> On 3/04/2015, at 01:33, Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o> wrote: |
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>> |
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>> Bumped, but now flint became incompatible: |
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>> |
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>> https://github.com/wbhart/flint2/issues/131 |
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>> |
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>> On 28/03/15 20:54, François Bissey wrote: |
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>>> And Victor just announce ntl 9.0 on sage-devel: |
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>>> |
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>>> With much trepidation, I have introduced a (hopefully minor) |
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>>> backward incompatibility into NTL. |
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>>> |
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>>> The interface to the single-precision modular arithmetic |
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>>> routines has been modified slightly. |
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>>> This interface change allows for more flexible and more |
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>>> efficient implementation of these routines, |
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>>> which play a crucial role at many levels in NTL. |
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>>> |
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>>> Basically, these changes to the interface abstract away |
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>>> some implementation details that arguably should never been there |
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>>> in the first place. |
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>>> By coding to the new interface, NTL clients will be able to |
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>>> benefit from the current and future improvements. |
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>>> |
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>>> In particular, on 64-bit x86/GCC platforms, single precision |
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>>> moduli can now be up to 60 bits, rather than 50 bits. |
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>>> While some operations may in fact be a little slower, the most important |
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>>> ones (like MulModPrecon) should not be. |
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>>> Using larger moduli speeds up a number of things, like ZZ_pX |
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>>> arithmetic, as fewer primes need to be used in Chinese Remaindering steps. |
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>>> Other applications benefit from larger moduli as well. |
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>>> |
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>>> It is expected that most NTL clients will not be affected at all. |
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>>> Moreover, any code that needs to be updated will be detected |
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>>> by the compiler, and the updates should be simple and mechanical. |
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>>> There is also a configuration flag that will enable the legacy |
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>>> interface (although this is not recommended practice). |
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>>> |
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>>> For more, go to http://www.shoup.net/ntl |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> -- |
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>> Thomas Kahle |
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>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ |
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Thomas Kahle |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ |
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