Hi Alan, Thanks for the history: I was not myself aware of all that and it is good to know.
Brian On Mar 4, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Alan Eliasen wrote: > That's good to hear. By the way, in case you didn't know the history > of this bugfix, the leading researcher in the world in Toom-Cook and > other techniques for high-performance multiplication, Marco Bodrato, and > his colleagues, reviewed my parts of the patch (Karatsuba and Toom-Cook > multiplication, Karatsuba and Toom-Cook squaring) and said they were > "very clean." I also ran hundreds of gigabytes of test cases through it > (repeatedly,) taking many days, and cross-checked my multiplication > routines against several other packages including GMP and previous > versions of BigInteger.
