alt Hacker NewsThank you! The simplicity is mostly thanks to Schubfach although I did simplify it a bit more. Unfortunately the paper makes it appear somewhat complex because of all the talk about generic bases and Java workarounds.
Thank you! The simplicity is mostly thanks to Schubfach although I did simplify it a bit more. Unfortunately the paper makes it appear somewhat complex because of all the talk about generic bases and Java workarounds.
I've just started a Julia port and I think it will be even cleaner than the C version (mostly because Julia gives you a first class (U)Int128 and count leading zeros (and also better compile time programming that lets you skip on writing the first table out explicitly).