Comparisons

[Paul Zimmermann]

       Hi,

> Your http://gmplib.org/pi-with-gmp.html doc
> has a paragraph that states to "Compare the numbers":
> 
>  "Many π programs proclaim themselves as "the fastest", but then they are
> actually several times slower than gmp-chudnovsky.c
>   with the current GMP release. Compare the numbers!"
> 
> There are however no numbers in the table to make any comparisons, other
> than across GMP versions,  to.

a comparison was made by Fabrice Bellard with his own implementation TPI
on http://misn.loria.fr/fichiers/bellard-20100209.pdf, slide 34 (it is in
french, but you should understand the table).

His TPI code is available at http://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/tpi.html.

Paul Zimmermann