On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > My working on the big PARI-upgrade (#9343) has sprouted many ideas. One > of these (possibly crazy) ideas is the following: we might manage to > some extent to make 32-bit PARI behave like 64-bit PARI. Because right > now various doctests return different results depending on the word size > (32 or 64 bits). But if we make sure that the internal precision in > PARI is always a multiple of 64 bits, the results should be the same on > 32 and 64 bit machines. I already managed to do this as a > proof-of-concept for the sin() function. It might not be easy to do > this for every possible function in every possible case, but I guess > something can be done easily. The main disadvantage that I see is that > this might cause slowdowns, especially when working with small > precisions. What does sage-devel think of this?
I like the idea. Carl -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
