On Sunday 05 February 2012, 23:14:35, wren ng thornton wrote:
On 2/5/12 10:21 AM, Daniel Fischer wrote:
Why not use one of the packages on hackage which offer faster prime generators?
Mostly because I hadn't looked, having had the code already laying around.
Yeah, that's fine, it was just
I'll probably trade it in for your algorithm though.
that made me wonder.
I'm not opposed to it, however another goal is to remain portable to other compilers, which means being H98/H2010 compliant.
A noble goal.
NumberSieves uses BangPatterns, but that would be easily remedied if the author is willing; arithmoi looks quite nice, however it is GHC-only.
The curse of striving for efficiency. "Portability is on the to-do list (with low priority, however)." It just climbed a place. Cheers, Daniel