Discussion related to cado-nfs

[Zimmermann Paul <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>]

       Paul,

> From: Paul Leyland <paul.leyland@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: paul.leyland@gmail.com
> 
> On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 09:36 +0200, Zimmermann Paul wrote:
> > Paul,
> > 
> > I hope the issue is fixed on your side now.
> 
> Very probably.  purge.log now ends with
> 
>    new_nrows=19342364 new_ncols=19185740 (156624) at 400.68
> excess < 0.10 * #primes. See -required_excess argument.
> 
> The previous version had an excess of 1749.  #primes is ~53M so another
> two or three iterations should be enough.

any news of your first factorization with CADO-NFS?

> > Anyway we will change our code so that when an error occurs in purge,
> > the factorization is aborted, to avoid it runs forever as you experienced.
> 
> Thanks.  When I've finished this factorization and perhaps another one,
> I'll put together a list of suggestions based on my experience with this
> code and with other NFS implementations.   I may even be able to
> implement one or two of them!

you are most welcome!

Paul