Jeroen Demeyer on Thu, 08 May 2014 18:40:46 +0200


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Factoring small numbers


Dear pari-dev,

While working on Sage today, I was very amazed that GAP is much faster than PARI for factoring small numbers.

For example, for factoring 19180172397815991981, GAP beats PARI by a factor of about 20. As far as I know, PARI uses rho + MPQS while GAP only uses Pollard rho. So perhaps PARI shouldn't use MPQS for numbers of this size.

Any opinions?


Cheers,
Jeroen.