ProjectEuler problem 35

Jay Norwood jayn at prismnet.com
Sun May 20 17:12:53 PDT 2012


On Sunday, 20 May 2012 at 15:48:31 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 19/05/2012 16:13, maarten van damme wrote:
> Yes, that's a common optimisation.  Faster still would be to 
> test 6k-1 and 6k+1 for each positive integer k.  Indeed, I've 
> done more than this in my time: hard-coded all the primes up to 
> 30 and the residues modulo 30 that can possibly be of primes 
> above 30.
>
> Stewart.

This person has done a number of optimizations.  He gets some 
speed-up by storing in bits rather than bytes.  It is also 
designed for segments that fir in the L1 cache.

http://code.google.com/p/primesieve/





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