multi-threaded multiplication speed-up

[Richard B. Kreckel]

Pierrick Gaudry wrote:

>This kind of parallelization at the application level looks indeed vastly
>superior to having the parallelization at the level of the library. If an
>algorithm allows it (and this is often the case), this is the right thing
>to do. On the other hand, there are also algorithms for which the
>multiprecision operations are inherently sequential. Computing digits of
>Pi is one example.
>

I'm not disagreeing with your point, but let me just point out that 
computing digits of pi (or most other interesting constants) is quite 
amendable to parallelization.

Cheers
-richy.

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Richard B. Kreckel
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