[CLN-list] CLN 1.2.0

Richard B. Kreckel kreckel at ginac.de
Mon Jan 21 21:46:25 CET 2008


Joerg Arndt wrote:
>>> May I suggest to add a AGM based pi-computation?
>> Well, patches are very welcome!  ;-)
> 
> I'll give it a try.
> 
> Here is why I suggested it:
> Some people compare performance of Pi computations
> ignoring that one is AGM based and another is binsplit
> based.  Having both gives a good impression on the
> performance of these two fundamentally different
> (and fundamentally important) algorithms.

Good idea. Where, approximately, do you expect a break-even to occur? 
Should we make bets?

   -richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
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