Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 14-Jun-2006, David Bateman wrote:
> 
> | As I said the final say is up to John, but discussion on the list will
> | help clarify his choice.. He hasn't weighed in on this discussion yet so
> | who knows.. In any case I'd suggest you resend an updated version of
> | your code with the lookup table for small values of p to further speed
> | up your code, and see what he says.
> 
> It's fine with me to switch to the faster code in C if someone is
> willing to maintain it (I don't think I can, though that is probably
> also true of the scripting language code we have now).

So Torsten, are you going to stay around and support your code :-)

> 
> Also, I think that the following assumption stated in the comments at
> the top of prime-gen.c
> 
>   ## Since there are no special license terms in D. Bernsteins original 
>   ## Primegen distribution it is assumed that the code can freely be used.
> 
> is not good.  It is my understanding that files with no notice would
> not be freely available at all.  Lack of a copyright notices doesn't
> imply that something is in the public domain.  I think we should ask
> for clarification.

Yes, the license needs to be checked..

D.