Fwd: Factorial improvements

[Torbjorn Granlund]

Paul.Zimmermann at loria.fr (Paul Zimmermann) writes:

  the best known algorithm is the one from Schönhage, Grotefeld and Vetter.
  See the implementation below. Timings on a 1.7Ghz Athlon with gmp-4.1.4:
  
  % ./fac_ui 100000
  mpz_fac_ui took 439ms
  mpz_fac_ui2 took 250ms
  
  % ./fac_ui 1000000
  mpz_fac_ui took 10641ms
  mpz_fac_ui2 took 5717ms
  
  % ./fac_ui 2000000
  mpz_fac_ui took 27371ms
  mpz_fac_ui2 took 13764ms
  
  % ./fac_ui 5000000
  mpz_fac_ui took 99720ms
  mpz_fac_ui2 took 42751ms
  
Nice speedups!
Here is the current GMP code, contributed by Jason Moxham:

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