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Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library
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David Bateman |
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Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library |
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Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:12:52 +0200 |
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John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 14-Jun-2006, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | As I said the final say is up to John, but discussion on the list will
> | help clarify his choice.. He hasn't weighed in on this discussion yet so
> | who knows.. In any case I'd suggest you resend an updated version of
> | your code with the lookup table for small values of p to further speed
> | up your code, and see what he says.
>
> It's fine with me to switch to the faster code in C if someone is
> willing to maintain it (I don't think I can, though that is probably
> also true of the scripting language code we have now).
So Torsten, are you going to stay around and support your code :-)
>
> Also, I think that the following assumption stated in the comments at
> the top of prime-gen.c
>
> ## Since there are no special license terms in D. Bernsteins original
> ## Primegen distribution it is assumed that the code can freely be used.
>
> is not good. It is my understanding that files with no notice would
> not be freely available at all. Lack of a copyright notices doesn't
> imply that something is in the public domain. I think we should ask
> for clarification.
Yes, the license needs to be checked..
D.
- Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bersteins fast primegen library, Paul Kienzle, 2006/06/11
- Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bersteins fast primegen library, David Bateman, 2006/06/12
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- Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library, David Bateman, 2006/06/14
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- Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library, David Bateman, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library, John W. Eaton, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library,
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- Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library, John W. Eaton, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library, David Bateman, 2006/06/14