Discussion related to cado-nfs

[Pierrick Gaudry <pierrick.gaudry@loria.fr>]

Dear Paul,

> [...]
> I note that ARM systems are now becoming very common, big
> enough and with significant computational performance; they tend to be
> *much* more power-efficient than x86 systems.  They also have
> interesting architectural differences.   Perhaps this topic could be
> considered for inclusion in the "coding sprints" element?
> [...]

Now cado-nfs compiles and all the checks pass on a Raspberry pi.  It
takes ages, though... We'll soon have a pi 2 that should be a bit faster,
with the goal to set it up within our continous integration mechanism.

Porting to this architecture was indeed interesting, and several
nice bugs were found.

Pierrick