GMP Itemized Developement Tasks suggestion

[Kevin Ryde]

"Dennis Lubert" <lubert at sipoc.de> writes:
>
> does not need to reallocate the used mpz_t variable,
> since it will always have a maximum number of limbs as the moduli.

Allocation policy is described under "memory management" in the
manual.  The "efficiency" section has notes on what to do if it's
hurting.

> PS: have you every tried to use valgrind/cachegrind on x86 CPUs to measure
> speed / cache latency ?

We're probably clean to valgrind checking, apart from maybe a few
uninitialized memory reads.

For caching we're more interested in getting the asm routines to run
at full speed out of L2.