On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 08:15, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's possible that there are further gains to be had in the sqrt()
> algorithm on platforms that support 128-bit integers, but I haven't
> had a chance to investigate that yet.
>
Rebased patch attached, now using 128-bit integers for part of
sqrt_var() on platforms that support them. This turned out to be well
worth it (1.5 to 2 times faster than the previous version if the
result has less than 30 or 40 digits).
Regards,
Dean