On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:11:20 +0100 Mattias Andrée <maand...@kth.se> wrote:
Hey Mattias, > Well, that is pain in the ass. I know Matlab is a pain in the ass, but it's going to be academia mostly who would be "eligible" to use factor(1) for something. What I could live with is having a naive implementation, so John Doe can just type "factor 1831" quickly and see the result. If you want to crack large primes, use something more tailored for the job. We had the same mindset "implementing" sort -m, which merges already sorted files without storing them. We just sort them anyway, which kind of defeats the purpose of the flag, but such a simple solution is valid for 99% of the cases and we still have the chance to do it "right" in a simple way. > I'm actually using factor. And it is in base systems, so > I think it should be included, but I will be simplifying > it. What are you using it for? To test the primes in your favourite RSA-algorithm? I will personally not sign any patch that includes gmp, tommath or pthreads or any other abominations of mankind. I don't think either that anybody here would agree on merging a single tool literally nobody uses if it includes these insane dependencies. I know there is "need" for a suckless bignum library, also in the interest of implementing dc(1) or bc(1) in the future (which are programs people actually use), however, this has not been achieved yet. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
