sqrt algorithm

[Marco Bodrato]

Ciao,

On Mon, August 3, 2015 12:02 pm, Torbjörn Granlund wrote:

> I don't think I ever considered a sqrlo.

I remember I thought about it when we introduced mullo, and I concluded
that it was hard to obtain an efficient version... but I don't remember
why, so I can be wrong.

> All the *_basecase assembly code is a major PITA to write for all
> relevant CPUs.  The effort behind what we have today is considerable,

Do we need a sqrlo_basecase? The D&C version of sqrlo would use a full
squaring and a single mullo, so that the base_cases for sqrlo_dc are
sqr_basecase, mul_basecase and mullo_basecase.

Writing a working sqrlo based on the current mullo code should be easy.

Regards,
m

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