Magma, GMP, and the FFT

Ismail Donmez ismail at uludag.org.tr
Tue Dec 6 09:44:06 CET 2005


Salı 6 Aralık 2005 10:25 tarihinde, Paul Zimmermann şunları yazmıştı: 
> The Magma developers kindly gave me the opportunity to look at the source
> code of the Magma FFT. I can therefore say it is a completely independent
> implementation of Scho"nhage-Strassen's algorithm, and in particular it is
> not based on my implementation within GMP, nor my implementation is based
> on the Magma one. :-)
>
> I hope the Magma developers will agree to work together with me to
> understand why their implementation of the same algorithm is faster than
> mine, which would help to improve GMP, and hopefully Magma too.

Still their way of advertising this ( "We are based on GMP and faster than 
it!" ) is not ethical given that GMP is free software.

Regards,
ismail
 


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