Re: [gentoo-science] ntl bump

[Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>]

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no problem. I'll bump it (but not today).

On 28/03/15 20:54, François Bissey wrote:
> And Victor just announce ntl 9.0 on sage-devel:
> 
> With much trepidation, I have introduced a (hopefully minor)
> backward incompatibility into NTL.  
> 
> The interface to the single-precision modular arithmetic 
> routines has been modified slightly.
> This interface change allows for more flexible and more
> efficient implementation of these routines,
> which play a crucial role at many levels in NTL.
> 
> Basically, these changes to the interface abstract away
> some implementation details that arguably should never been there
> in the first place.
> By coding to the new interface, NTL clients will be able to 
> benefit from the current and future improvements.
> 
> In particular, on 64-bit x86/GCC platforms, single precision
> moduli can now be up to 60 bits, rather than 50 bits.
> While some operations may in fact be a little slower, the most important
> ones (like MulModPrecon) should not be.
> Using larger moduli speeds up a number of things, like ZZ_pX
> arithmetic, as fewer primes need to be used in Chinese Remaindering steps.
> Other applications benefit from larger moduli as well.
> 
> It is expected that most NTL clients will not be affected at all.
> Moreover, any code that needs to be updated will be detected
> by the compiler, and the updates should be simple and mechanical.
> There is also a configuration flag that will enable the legacy
> interface (although this is not recommended practice).
> 
> For more, go to http://www.shoup.net/ntl
> 
> 

-- 
Thomas Kahle
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/


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