<div dir="ltr">**</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mar., 8 oct. 2019 a las 23:17, Agustín Sansone (<<a href="mailto:agustinsansone7@gmail.com">agustinsansone7@gmail.com</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello!<div><br></div><div>I agree with you. I don't think isPrime should send isProbablyPrime because it could fail in the future.</div><div>I leave you here the implementation with this taken care of.</div><div>I wrote the (each+31) case first in the trial division loop, because it is testing the 30*k+1 case, wich I also wrote first in the comment. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Agustín</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mar., 8 oct. 2019 a las 8:11, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev (<<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st" target="_blank">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
I agree with Andrés comments, and will just focusing on the proposed <br>
changes.<br>
(snip)<br>
<br>
On 10/8/2019 2:20 AM, Andres Valloud via Cuis-dev wrote:<br>
> Agustin, nice to see someone looking into these kinds of things :).<br>
> ...<br>
>> * The *raisedToInteger: exp modulo: m *method**in Integer has a very<br>
>> big problem. If we compute, for example, /"5 raisedTo: 0 modulo:<br>
>> 0"/, this returns 1. This means, that according to Smalltalk, the<br>
>> rest of the division by 0 of 1(=5^0) is equal to 1 (Yes, division by<br>
>> zero!!). I think you can see the problem. This is due the first line<br>
>> of the method, that says /"(exp = 0) ifTrue: [^ 1].", /does<br>
>> not check anything else. This problem can be easily fixed by<br>
>> checking if m=0 just before.<br>
><br>
> I agree, the current code appears to be wrong. The initials on the <br>
> code belong to Juan Vuletich and Nicolas Cellier. Guys, is there <br>
> reason why e.g. 5 raisedTo: 0 modulo: 0 should answer 1 rather than <br>
> fail? I don't see any, but...<br>
><br>
> Assuming the code is broken and needs to be fixed, alternatively one <br>
> could also write the initial guard clause like this:<br>
><br>
> n = 0 ifTrue: [^1 \\ m].<br>
><br>
> because the case m = 0 will fail.<br>
> ...<br>
<br>
Just added this suggestion as an update to GitHub. Andrés, I did it with <br>
your author initials, it's your code!<br>
<br>
> ...<br>
>> * The *isPrime *method in Integer makes some optimization in order to<br>
>> run the algorithm in O(sqrt(self)) instead of the naive way in<br>
>> O(self). This is very intelligent, but the constant factor of this<br>
>> method can be still improved significantly. I share with you my<br>
>> implementation of *isPrimeFast *with a small explanation. This<br>
>> implementation runs in general more than 3 times faster than the<br>
>> actual one. I leave you a test that checks the correctness of it as<br>
>> well, and some other tests that check this complexity I mentioned.<br>
><br>
> I see what you did there, but I do not know how to reproduce the time <br>
> tests you mention. I built a sample of integers between 1 and 2^32 (I <br>
> didn't go up to 2^64 because that would require O(2^32) operations <br>
> each, and I want that to finish in reasonable time), and I get <br>
> something like a 2x performance improvement rather than 3x. This <br>
> seems to make sense because the approach you propose halves the \\ <br>
> operations (8 remain out of the 16 the current code is doing, for <br>
> every batch of 30 potential divisors).<br>
><br>
> slicer := 1024.<br>
> thickness := 255.<br>
> maxK := 1 bitShift: 32.<br>
> integers := 1 to: maxK by: maxK // slicer<br>
> :: inject: OrderedCollection new<br>
> into: [:t :x |<br>
> t add: x.<br>
> thickness timesRepeat: [t add: t last + 1].<br>
> t yourself]<br>
> :: asArray.<br>
> Time millisecondsToRun:<br>
> [1 to: integers size do:<br>
> [:x | (integers at: x) isPrime]]<br>
><br>
> Using the above code (which I could not format more nicely in this <br>
> email), I get about 4.8s for isPrime, and about 2.4s for isPrimeFast.<br>
><br>
> Generally, isPrime shouldn't send isProbablyPrime because isPrime is <br>
> meant to be deterministic, and one shouldn't assume that the <br>
> probabilistic algorithm today will happen to provide the correct <br>
> deterministic answer tomorrow.<br>
><br>
> Why is the (each+31) case first in the trial division loop?<br>
><br>
> Andres.<br>
<br>
I'll wait for your consensus on what to do here. Making isPrime not send <br>
isProbablyPrime sounds reasonable to me, but folks, I prefer to wait for <br>
your suggestion.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
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