Recent changes to mpn_get_str/mpn_set_str

[Marco Bodrato]

Ciao,

Il Gio, 2 Febbraio 2017 5:02 pm, Torbjörn Granlund ha scritto:
> "Marco Bodrato" <bodrato at mail.dm.unipi.it> writes:
>
>   Maybe I'll try, the basecase...
> I take this as a promise. :-)

> If coming from the sub-quadratic code, there will be a suitable

...

> If coming directly from the external caller (e.g. mpz_get_str) no such
> power will be available.  One should be computed with mpn_pow_1 (or a

... and for the basecase I mean in particular this scenario.

> GET_STR_DC_THRESHOLD for base 10.  For CPUs with mpn_mulhi (currently
> none) tabling also the inverses (or just the inverses!) also makes sense.

The mulhi issue is a big one... not only we do not have it specialised for
any CPU, but we don't have a pure C version... we did not even decide the
result we want from such a function :-D

Regards,
m

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