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Changes in version 12.6, 11/11/2024
===================================
* CpuInfo.cpp: Correctly detect Intel Arrow Lake CPU cache
topology on Windows and Linux.
* PreSieve.cpp: Increased pre-sieving from primes <= 100 to
primes <= 163. Memory usage of pre-sieve lookup tables has been
reduced from 210 kilobytes to 123 kilobytes.
* PreSieve.cpp: Added AVX512 and ARM SVE multiarch support.
Changes in version 12.5, 22/10/2024
===================================
* Improve thread load balancing for large number of CPU cores.
Changes in version 12.4, 22/06/2024
===================================
* Move x86 CPUID code from cpuid.hpp to src/x86/cpuid.cpp.
* multiarch_x86_popcnt.cmake: Detect x86 POPCNT support.
* CMakeLists.txt: Use CMake list for all compile time definitions.
* CMakeLists.txt: Use CMake list for all link libraries.
Changes in version 12.3, 15/04/2024
===================================
* Improve Windows multiarch support (now works with MinGW64).
* Add runtime POPCNT detection using CPUID for x86 CPUs.
* Improve GCC/Clang multiarch preprocessor logic.
* CMakeLists.txt: Remove POPCNT/BMI check for x86 CPUs.
Changes in version 12.2, 30/03/2024
===================================
* RiemannR.cpp: Fix infinite loop on Linux i386,
see https://github.com/kimwalisch/primecount/issues/66.
* RiemannR.cpp: Faster and simpler RiemannR_inverse(x).
* config.hpp: Tune FACTOR_ERATMEDIUM for AMD Zen 4.
* test/Riemann_R.cpp: Add more tests.
Changes in version 12.1, 09/03/2024
===================================
CMakeLists.txt: Fix undefined reference to pthread_create #146.
PrimeSieve.cpp: Improve status output.
src/app/test.cpp: Fix -ffast-math failure.
test/count_primes2.cpp: Fix -ffast-math failure.
test/Riemann_R.cpp: Fix musl libc issue #147.
Changes in version 12.0, 17/02/2024
===================================
* stressTest.cpp: New --stress-test[=MODE] command-line option.
* RiemannR.cpp: Faster Riemann R function implementation #144.
* CmdOptions.cpp: New -R && --RiemannR command line options.
* CmdOptions.cpp: New --RiemannR-inverse command line option.
* CmdOptions.cpp: Add new --timeout option for stress testing.
* main.cpp: Improve command-line option handling.
Changes in version 11.2, 08/01/2024
===================================
* nthPrime.cpp: Rewritten using faster nth prime approximation.
* nthPrimeApprox.cpp: Logarithmic integral and Riemann R implementations.
* cmake/libatomic.cmake: Fix failed to find libatomic #141.
* .github/workflows/ci.yml: Port AppVeyor CI tests to GitHub Actions.
* doc/C_API.md: Fix off by 1 error in OpenMP example #137.
* doc/CPP_API.md: Fix off by 1 error in OpenMP example #137.
* Vector.hpp: Rename pod_vector to Vector and pod_array to Array.
* iterator.h: Improve documentation.
* iterator.hpp: Improve documentation.
* C_API.md: Add SIMD (vectorization) section.
* CPP_API.md: Add SIMD (vectorization) section.
* README.md: Add C & C++ API badges.
Changes in version 11.1, 12/05/2023
===================================
When primesieve is distributed via distro package managers, it is often
not compiled using the highest optimization level -O3. Because of this
primesieve's pre-sieving algorithm was not auto-vectorized in many
cases. As a workaround for this issue I have now manually vectorized
the pre-sieving algorithm for x64 CPUs (using portable SSE2) and for
ARM64 CPUs (using portable ARM NEON). This can improve performance by
up to 40%.
* PreSieve.cpp: Vectorize loop using x64 SSE2 & ARM NEON.
* popcount.cpp: Add POPCNT algorithm for x64 & AArch64.
* primesieve.h: Fix -Wstrict-prototypes warning.
* examples/c/*.c: Fix -Wstrict-prototypes warning.
* test/*.c: Fix -Wstrict-prototypes warning.
* CMakeLists.txt: New WITH_AUTO_VECTORIZATION option (with default ON).
* cmake/auto_vectorize.cmake: Enable auto-vectorization if the compiler
supports it.
* scripts/build_mingw64_x64.sh: Build primesieve x64 release binary.
* scripts/build_mingw64_arm64.sh: Build primesieve arm64 release binary.
Changes in version 11.0, 02/12/2022
===================================
The primesieve major version has been increased from 8 to 11 in order
for the primesieve major version to match the libprimesieve.so (ABI)
version. From now on, the primesieve version and the libprimesieve.so
version will be kept in sync.
The libprimesieve C API and ABI remain backwards compatible with
primesieve-8.*. In primesieve-11.0 the C primesieve_skipto() function
has been marked as deprecated and primesieve_jump_to() has been added
as a replacement.
The libprimesieve C++ API and ABI are not backwards compatible. The
primesieve::iterator::skipto() method has been removed and replaced by
the new primesieve::iterator::jump_to().
Please note that the new primesieve_jump_to(iter, start, stop) includes
the start number (generates primes >= start), whereas the old
primesieve_skipto(iter, start, stop) excludes the start number
(generates primes > start). In practice, the use of primesieve_jump_to()
requires up to 2x less start number corrections (e.g. start-1) compared
to primesieve_skipto().
* CMakeLists.txt: Improve Emscripten WebAssembly support.
* iterator.cpp: Add new primesieve::iterator::jump_to().
* iterator.cpp: Fix use after free in primesieve::iterator::clear().
* iterator-c.cpp: Add new primesieve_jump_to().
* iterator-c.cpp: Mark primesieve_skipto() as deprecated.
* iterator-c.cpp: Fix use after free in primesieve_iterator_clear().
* pod_vector.hpp: Added support for types with destructors.
* malloc_vector.hpp: Fix potential memory leak.
* api.cpp: Support non power of 2 sieve sizes.
* PrimeSieve.cpp: Support non power of 2 sieve sizes.
* PreSieve.cpp: Use std::initializer_list instead of std::vector.
* Erat.cpp: Improve documentation.
* C_API.md: Improve next_prime() and prev_prime() documentation.
* CPP_API.md: Improve next_prime() and prev_prime() documentation.
Changes in version 8.0, 26/06/2022
==================================
There has been a minor change in the ABI (Application binary interface) of
libprimesieve-8.0 compared to libprimesieve-7.x. This ABI break was necessary
to fix undefined behavior present in libprimesieve-7.x
(in primesieve::iterator). For more information, please read:
https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve/wiki/libprimesieve-8.0-ABI-changes
* primesieve::iterator's ABI has been modified in both the C & C++ API.
primesieve::iterator's API remains backwards compatible.
* CPP_API.md: Renamed doc/CPP_Examples.md to doc/CPP_API.md.
* C_API.md: Renamed doc/C_Examples.md to doc/C_API.md.
* Fix undefined behavior (g++-12 issue) caused by resizeUninitialized.hpp,
use new pod_vector<uint64_t> from pod_vector.hpp instead.
* iterator.cpp: Enable pre-sieving for primesieve::iterator.prev_prime().
* iterator-c.cpp: Enable pre-sieving for primesieve::iterator.prev_prime().
* PreSieve.cpp: Detect if the user sieves many consective intervals.
* PrimeGenerator.cpp: Improve AVX512 of fillNextPrimes().
* PrimeGenerator.cpp: Reduce memory usage for tiny stop numbers.
* PrimeGenerator.hpp: Add GCC/Clang's function multiversioning for AVX512.
* Erat.cpp: Dynamically grow the sieve size: use a small sieve size for
small stop numbers and a large sieve size for large stop numbers.
* Erat.cpp: Reduce memory usage, allocate the minimum required
memory to store all sieving primes.
* CpuInfo.cpp: Detect AVX512 using CPUID.
* pmath.hpp: Use compiler instrinsics for ilog2() & floorPow2().
* StorePrimes.hpp: Use vector::insert() instead of vector::push_back(),
see: https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve/issues/123.
* CMakeLists.txt: Automatically enable expensive debug assertions in debug
mode (if CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug).
Changes in version 7.9, 03/05/2022
==================================
* intrinsics.hpp: Improved x64 BSF assembly.
* iterator.cpp: Reduce memory allocations in generate_prev_primes().
* iterator-c.cpp: Reduce memory allocations.
* CpuInfo.cpp: Improve hybrid CPU detection on Linux.
* Erat.cpp: Reduce memory usage when sieving a single segment.
* EratBig.cpp: Improve instruction level parallelism.
* EratBig.cpp: Improve next wheel index code.
* EratBig.cpp: Use std::copy() instead of std::rotate().
* SievingPrimes.cpp: Reduce branch mispredictions.
* PreSieve.cpp: Hardcode buffersDist.
* MemoryPool.cpp: Reduce memory usage.
* StorePrimes.hpp: Improve nth prime approximation.
* config.hpp: Tune FACTOR_ERATMEDIUM constant.
* Use a single MemoryPool per thread (previously 2).
* Increase max sieve array size to 8 KiB.
Changes in version 7.8, 21/01/2022
==================================
primesieve can now pre-sieve the multiples of small primes < 100
(previously <= 19) using about only half as much memory. Instead
of using a single large pre-sieved buffer primesieve now uses
8 smaller pre-sieved buffers which are bitwise AND together before
being copied into the sieve array. The new pre-sieveing algorithm
provides a speedup of up to 10% when generating the primes < 10^11.
Thanks to @zielaj for this amazing work!
* PreSieve.cpp: Add multiple pre-sieve buffers #110.
* PrimeGenerator.cpp: Reduce branch mispredictions #109.
* PrimeGenerator.cpp: Add AVX512 algorithm #109.
* iterator.cpp: Avoid default initialization of primes vector.
* iterator-c.cpp: Avoid default initialization of primes vector.
* ParallelSieve.cpp: Initialize PreSieve.
* ALGORITHMS.md: Update documentation.
Changes in version 7.7, 13/11/2021
==================================
The CPU cache size detection has been improved. The code now better
handles uncertain situations when CPU cache information is only
partially available. If the CPU cache detection fails entirely, then
the new code uses a larger sieve size (than before) that will most
likely provide a significant speedup. Most BSD operating systems
that are currently not supported in CpuInfo.cpp will benefit from
this change.
The behavior of the -q/--quiet option has been modified. Before it
printed e.g. "Primes: 1229", while with the new behavior the
"Primes:" label will not be printed anymore. Hence the new output
will be "1229". This is a backwards incompatible change, however I
won't increase primesieve's major version since this change does not
affect primesieve's API/ABI.
* CpuInfo.cpp: Fix issues with big.LITTLE CPUs #105.
* api.cpp: Simplify private L2 cache size detection #103.
* config.cpp: Add fallback sieve size & L1 data cache size.
* Erat.cpp: If runtime CPU cache detection fails use
config::L1D_CACHE_BYTES.
* main.cpp: Improve -q/--quiet option #102.
* api-c.cpp: Print error messages to stderr.
* iterator-c.cpp: Print error messages to stderr.
* doc/primesieve.1: Update man page.
* CMakeLists.txt: Add WITH_MSVC_CRT_STATIC option to force static linking.
* C_Examples.md: Add CMake build instructions.
* CPP_Examples.md: Add CMake build instructions.
Changes in version 7.6, 18/12/2020
==================================
* The primesieve GUI application has been deprecated/removed.
It only works with QT4 which has reached end-of-life.
* Get rid Travis-CI because it is not free anymore.
* CpuInfo.cpp: Linux kernel CPU detection has been updated.
* CpuInfo.cpp: Add workaround for sysctl bug (macOS & iOS).
* Erat.hpp: Use CTZ instruction on x64 and ARM64 CPUs.
* config.hpp: Tune FACTOR_ERATSMALL factor.
* EratSmall.cpp: Get rid of goto.
* EratSmall.cpp: Optimize switch statement.
* EratSmall.cpp: Annotate switch cases with fallthrough.
* EratMedium.cpp: Get rid of goto.
* EratMedium.cpp: Optimize switch statements.
* EratMedium.cpp: Annotate switch cases with fallthrough.
* EratBig.cpp: Simplify main sieving loop.
* doc/C_Examples.md: libprimesieve C code examples.
* doc/CPP_Examples.md: libprimesieve C++ code examples.
Changes in version 7.5, 27/12/2019
==================================
This is a minor new release, the API and ABI (Application binary
interface) are backwards compatible.
primesieve::iterator::next_prime() has been sped up by about 10%.
Since primesieve::iterator is also used under the hood for
generating an array (or vector) of primes that should also run
slightly faster.
I have also removed the https://primesieve.org website because it
simply took too much effort to maintain it and make it look nice
across all devices, operating systems and browsers.
Hence primesieve's main homepage is now its GitHub repo:
https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve
* Erat.cpp: Silence MSVC debug warning.
* StorePrimes.hpp: Add workaround for windows.h max/min macros.
* PrimeGenerator.cpp: Cache more primes.
* SievingPrimes.cpp: Cache more primes.
* CmdOptions.cpp: Support options of type: --option VALUE.
* help.cpp: Improve help menu.
* CMakeLists.txt: Require CMake 3.4 instead 3.9.
* primesieve.pc.in: Fix libdir and includedir.
* README.md: Add libprimesieve multi-threading section.
* BUILD.md: Add detailed build instructions.
* doc/ALGORITHMS.md: Info from https://primesieve.org.
* doc/primesieve.txt: New AsciiDoc man page.
Changes in version 7.4, 10/02/2019
==================================
This is a minor new release, the API and ABI (Application binary
interface) are backwards compatible.
* CpuInfo.cpp: Fix MinGW CPU detection.
* CMakeLists.txt: Fix cross compilation bug.
* Add --test option: Runs self tests.
* IteratorHelper.cpp: Improve caching of small primes.
* ParallelSieve.cpp: Non-blocking status updates.
* PrimeSieve.cpp: Simplify status update.
* travis.yml: Test using GCC 5, 6, 7, 8, Clang 7 and MinGW.
Changes in version 7.3, 04/01/2019
==================================
This is a minor new release, the API and ABI (Application binary
interface) are backwards compatible.
primesieve-7.3 improves the cache efficiency of the sieving algorithm
for large sieving primes. By using aligned memory it is possible
to reduce the number of pointer indirections which reduces cache
pollution. I have measured a speed up of 15% near 1e18 and a speed up
of 25% near 1e19.
* EratBig.cpp: Improve cache efficiency.
* MemoryPoop.cpp: Allocate buckets aligned by sizeof(Bucket).
* Bucket.hpp: sizeof(Bucket) is now a power of 2.
* primesieve::iterator: Support C++ move semantics.
* CmdOptions.cpp: Fix array out of bounds bug.
* CpuInfo.cpp: Fix MinGW/MSYS2 -Wcast-function-type warning.
Changes in version 7.2, 26/10/2018
==================================
This is a minor new release, the API and ABI (Application binary
interface) are backwards compatible.
primesieve-7.2 features a new algorithm for medium sieving primes
that improves the CPU's branch prediction rate by sorting the sieving
primes (before using them). On AMD EPYC CPUs I have measured a
speedup of up to 15% and on Intel Skylake CPUs I have measured a
speedup of up to 10%. Ever since primesieve was created in 2010 its
algorithm for medium sieving primes has been slower than yafu's
algorithm for medium sieving primes. This performance issue has now
been fixed!
* EratMedium.cpp: New faster sieving algorithm.
* EratSmall.cpp: Slightly reduce the number of instructions.
* MemoryPool.cpp: Move memory pool into its own class.
* CMakeLists.txt: Add support for primesieve.dll.
Changes in version 7.1, 19/08/2018
==================================
This is a minor new release, the API and ABI (Application binary
interface) are backwards compatible.
primesieve-7.1 runs up to 30% faster on Intel Skylake-X CPUs!
The default sieve size is now (L2 cache size / 2). Using a sieve size
that is slightly smaller than the L2 cache size reduces the number
of L2 cache misses which improves performance on CPUs with slow L3
caches. primesieve-7.1 will also run slightly faster (< 3%) on most
other Intel CPUs.
* api.cpp: Default sieve size = (L2 cache size / 2).
* CpuInfo.cpp: Improved CPU info detection.
* Erat.cpp: Lazy PreSieve initialization.
* EratSmall.cpp: Fix too large sieve size.
* help.cpp: Update help menu (--help).
* ParallelSieve.cpp: Improved load balancing.
* --cpu-info: New option, prints CPU information.
* Rename kilobytes to KiB because it is more accurate.
* Faster Windows binary built using clang-cl.
Changes in version 7.0, 25/04/2018
==================================
This is a major new release, the API is backwards compatible but the
ABI (Application binary interface) is not backwards compatible.
primesieve's core algorithms have been rewritten using next_prime()
instead of callbacks. The benefit of this redesign is a much improved
primesieve::iterator that runs up to twice as fast and uses only
half as much memory as before!
* primesieve::iterator: Faster next_prime().
* primesieve::iterator: Cache small primes in lookup table.
* PrimeGenerator.cpp: Incrementally store primes in a vector.
* StorePrimes.hpp: Use primesieve::iterator instead of callbacks.
* SievingPrimes.hpp: Use next_prime() instead of callbacks.
* Reduce number of memory allocations by up to 30%.
* Modernize code base using C++11.
* Test suite runs up to twice as fast.
## Breaking ABI Changes:
New variables have been added to the C++ primesieve::iterator class
and the C primesieve_iterator struct. Users that have written
primesieve bindings for other programming languages are affected
by these ABI changes and need to update their code.
Changes in version 6.4, 23/03/2018
==================================
This is a minor new release, the API and ABI are backwards compatible.
* Switch to https: https://primesieve.org.
* Faster printing to stdout.
* Required CMake version is now 3.4 (previously 3.1)
* CMakeLists.txt: Support find_package(primesieve).
* CMakeLists.txt: Add Fedora multiarch support.
* CMakeLists.txt: Fix libatomic detection.
* CMakeLists.txt: Fix make install issue.
* calculator.hpp: Fix integer overflow.
* test/calculator.cpp: Add test for expression parser.
## Breaking Changes:
The 2 changes below may potentially break the build of projects that
have hardcoded the src/primesieve path and/or the
src/primesieve/README filename in their build script.
* Move libprimesieve sources from ./src/primesieve to ./src.
* Rename src/primesieve/README to src/README.md.
Changes in version 6.3, 12/11/2017
==================================
This is a minor new release, the API and ABI are
backwards compatible.
* test/ilog2.cpp: Fix Linux i386 bug.
* test/floorPower2.cpp: Fix Linux i386 bug.
* CMakeLists.txt: Link against libatomic if needed.
* CMakeLists.txt: Add Debian Multiarch support.
Changes in version 6.2, 12/10/2017
==================================
This is a minor new release which fixes 2 bugs and improves
the primesieve GUI app. The API and ABI are backwards
compatible.
* pmath.hpp: Fix integer overflow.
* EratMedium.cpp: Fix vector out of bounds bugs.
* primesieve GUI app: Silence GCC 7 warnings.
* PrimeSieveGUI.cpp: Add option to sieve using
(CPU cores / 2) threads.
Changes in version 6.1, 12/08/2017
==================================
primesieve-6.1 features run-time CPU cache size detection and
an L2 cache size optimization contributed by Huang YuanBing
which speeds up sieving by up to 20% on recent CPUs (>= 2012).
By default primesieve now uses a sieve size that fits into the
CPU's L1 cache for small sieving primes and a sieve size that
fits into the CPU's L2 cache for medium and big sieving
primes.
The API and ABI are backwards compatible.
1. CpuInfo.cpp: Runtime CPU cache size detection.
2. api.cpp: sieve size = L2 cache size.
3. EratSmall.cpp: L1 cache size optimization.
4. EratMedium.cpp: Reduce allocations.
5. Silence GCC 7 warnings.
6. Fix GCC 7 performance regression.
Changes in version 6.0, 01/05/2017
==================================
primesieve-6.0 is a major new release with many changes. The API and
ABI are not backwards compatible, see the "API changes" sections
further down for more information.
1. Use CMake build system instead of Autotools.
2. Use C++11 instead of C++98.
3. Use C++11 threads instead of OpenMP.
4. C/C++ API is now parallel by default.
5. Add many C/C++ libprimesieve tests (./test).
6. Improved error messages.
C++ API changes
---------------
The C++ API is now parallel by default i.e. the
primesieve::count_*() and primesieve::nth_prime() functions use all
CPU cores. Hence the old primesieve::parallel_*() functions have been
removed.
Removed from C++ API:
uint64_t parallel_count_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t parallel_count_twins(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t parallel_count_triplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t parallel_count_quadruplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t parallel_count_quintuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t parallel_count_sextuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t parallel_nth_prime(int64_t n, uint64_t start = 0);
void callback_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, void (*callback)(uint64_t prime));
void callback_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, primesieve::Callback<uint64_t>* callback);
bool primesieve_test();
C API changes
-------------
The C API is now parallel by default i.e. the
primesieve_count_*() and primesieve_nth_prime() functions use all
CPU cores. Hence the old primesieve_parallel_*() functions have been
removed.
Removed from C API:
uint64_t primesieve_parallel_count_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve_parallel_count_twins(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve_parallel_count_triplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve_parallel_count_quadruplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve_parallel_count_quintuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve_parallel_count_sextuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve_parallel_nth_prime(int64_t n, uint64_t start);
void primesieve_callback_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, void (*callback)(uint64_t prime));
int primesieve_test();
Changes in version 5.7.3, 19/11/2016
====================================
The API and ABI are backwards compatible.
1. New ./configure option: --enable-maintainer-mode
If this option is used the primesieve man page will be
regenerated in the make step.
See doc/README.md for more information.
Changes in version 5.7.2, 21/08/2016
====================================
The API and ABI are backwards compatible.
1. doc/primesieve.1: Add primesieve man page.
2. configure.ac: Add --with-help2man option to regenerate man page.
3. scripts/update_version.sh: Script that automatically updates the
version in all files, see RELEASE.md for more information.
Changes in version 5.7.1, 13/08/2016
====================================
The API and ABI are backwards compatible.
1. New --no-status command-line option to turn off the progressing
status while counting primes or prime k-tuplets.
2. README.md: New "Package managers" section.
Changes in version 5.7.0, 31/07/2016
====================================
1. primesieve can now find primes up to 2^64-1 (UINT64_MAX), the
previous limit was 2^64 - 2^32 * 10. Thanks to Huang Yuanbing
(author of ktprime) for submitting the patch.
2. Cleaned up pre-sieving: uses less memory + faster initialization.
3. Faster primesieve::iterator initialization.
C/C++ API changes
-----------------
The MAX_THREADS constant has been removed.
Changes in version 5.6.0, 29/11/2015
====================================
1. The C API prime generation functions now return true C arrays which
can be deallocated using free() in the user's code.
2. New high resolution icon size for primesieve GUI app.
3. primesieve GUI app: Bug fix for CPUs with L1 data cache size that
is not a power of 2 e.g. Intel Z2480 Atom (24 KB L1 cache).
4. Renamed doxygen directory to doc.
5. doc/Doxyfile.in: Fix out of source builds.
C++ API changes
---------------
All parallel callback functions have been removed. This was just crazy
functionality which I should never have implemented ...
void parallel_callback_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, void (*callback)(uint64_t prime));
void parallel_callback_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, primesieve::Callback<uint64_t>* callback);
void parallel_callback_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, void (*callback)(uint64_t prime, int thread_id));
void parallel_callback_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, primesieve::Callback<uint64_t, int>* callback);
C API changes
-------------
All parallel callback functions have been removed:
void primesieve_parallel_callback_primes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, void (*callback)(uint64_t prime, int thread_id));
Changes in version 5.5.0, 06/11/2015
====================================
This release contains many small incremental improvements. There are
2 minor backwards incompatible API changes which are described further
down.
1. primesieve GUI app: Runtime detection of CPU L1 cache size.
2. primesieve.pc.in: Added support for pkg-config.
3. appveyor.yml: Automated Windows (MSVC++) testing.
4. README.md: New "Bindings for other languages" section.
5. include/config.h: tune for Intel Skylake CPUs.
6. include/WheelFactorization.hpp: Slightly faster initialization.
7. src/primesieve/EratMedium.cpp: Unroll sieving loop, up to 5% speed up.
8. src/primesieve/popcount.cpp: Faster popcount algorithm.
9. examples/c/previous_prime.c: Shows how to use primesieve_previous_prime().
C++ API changes
---------------
primesieve::test() has been renamed to primesieve::primesieve_test()
in order to prevent naming collisions.
primesieve::iterator::previous_prime() now returns 0 if input <= 2,
previously an error was thrown. Rationale of this change:
https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve/issues/11#issuecomment-148939336
C API changes
-------------
primesieve_previous_prime() now returns 0 if input <= 2, previously
PRIMESIEVE_ERROR was returned. Rationale of this change:
https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve/issues/11#issuecomment-148939336
Changes in version 5.4.2, 04/04/2015
====================================
This is a minor new release, the API and ABI are backwards compatible.
1. Use silent building on Unix-like operating systems.
2. Add screenshot to README.md.
3. Makefile.am: Add autogen.sh to EXTRA_DIST.
Changes in version 5.4.1, 09/11/2014
====================================
This is a minor new release, the API and ABI are backwards compatible.
1. Fixed a bug in the configure.ac script which used SIEVESIZE=0
instead of SIEVESIZE=32 on QEMU virtual machines.
2. Introduce patch version (3rd version number) in order not to
increase the minor version for bug fix only releases.
Changes in version 5.4, 14/09/2014
==================================
This is a minor new release which fixes two bugs in the computation of
prime k-tuplets (twin primes, prime triplets, ...).
1. The primesieve::print_*() functions for prime k-tuplets have been
fixed, they were broken since primesieve-5.1.
https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve/commit/ff2fb6f7acfb7c83827803dbb09a73f4a47ab222
2. Prime 7-tuplets have been removed from primesieve (see API changes
further down). Below are the two modulo 30 patterns for prime
7-tuplets:
1) 30*k + { 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29}
2) 30*k + {29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 49}
Up until now primesieve only found prime 7-tuplets of the first
pattern e.g. it missed 5610 + {29, 31, ...}. Unfortunately this bug
cannot be fixed because of implementation constraints. Thus I have
decided to completely remove prime 7-tuplets from primesieve.
C++ API changes
---------------
All functions related to prime 7-tuplets have been removed:
uint64_t primesieve::print_septuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve::count_septuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve::parallel_count_septuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
C API changes
-------------
All functions related to prime 7-tuplets have been removed:
uint64_t primesieve_print_septuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve_count_septuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t primesieve_parallel_count_septuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
Changes in version 5.3, 06/07/2014
==================================
This is a minor new release with an important bug fix and improved
documentation, the API and ABI are backwards compatible.
1. Fix use of uninitialized variable bug in primesieve::iterator:
https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve/commit/006d572ea8fa4958eaf46c1db24c983b1ce27e1b
2. README.md update: Explain how to build from master-branch.
3. New file HACKING.md: Explains source tree, useful for developers.
Changes in version 5.2, 13/04/2014
==================================
1. Added backwards nth prime search, if n < 0
primesieve::nth_prime(int64_t n, uint64_t start);
will find the nth prime < start.
2. Faster nth prime implementation, more accurate guessing of the nth
prime gives up to 20% speed up if n < 10^8.
3. Added continuous integration testing with Travis (travis-ci.org),
files: .travis.yml, Readme.md (shows build status).
API changes!!!
In order to be compatible with other mathematical software like
Mathematica, Maple and SymPy the functions below have been modified
to return a prime > start (or < start), previously these functions
returned a prime >= start (or <= start).
uint64_t primesieve::nth_prime(int64_t n, uint64_t start);
uint64_t primesieve::iterator::next_prime();
uint64_t primesieve::iterator::previous_prime();
Changes in version 5.1, 14/02/2014
==================================
primesieve-5.1 is a minor new release with mostly bug fixes. There is
also one API change in the C bindings documented further down.
1. <primesieve.hpp> and <primesieve.h> are now compatible with
<windows.h>, fixed CALLBACK and max() issues.
2. Fixed bug in primesieve::iterator::previous_prime().
3. Fixed bug in primesieve_previous_prime().
4. Added stop_hint optimization to primesieve::iterator which gives a
significant speed up if only few primes are generated.
5. Replaced GENERATE_PRIMES() macro by templatized callbackPrimes()
method (src/primesieve/PrimeFinder.cpp).
C bindings API change:
void primesieve_skipto(primesieve_iterator* pi, uint64_t start, uint64_t stop_hint);
The signature of the primesieve_skipto() function has changed, a new
'stop_hint' parameter has been added. Please refer to
http://primesieve.org/api/primesieve__iterator_8h.html for more
information.
Changes in version 5.0, 11/01/2014
==================================
primesieve-5.0 is a major new release that makes using the primesieve
library much more convenient. primesieve now includes C bindings for
all of its functions so that it can easily be used in languages other
than C++. I moved primesieve's build system to GNU Autotools and
Libtool which is more reliable than the hand written Makefile I used
previously.
primesieve-5.0 features a new API completely written from scratch that
is easier to use and that will not break binary compatibility with
every new release. The new API is not backwards compatible but porting
your code to the new API should be done quickly. You can explore
primesieve's new API online at: http://primesieve.org/api.
I bought a domain for primesieve and moved primesieve's repository
from Google Code (SVN) to GitHub (git):
http://primesieve.org
http://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve
Other changes:
1. New primesieve::iterator class that provides next_prime() and
previous_prime() methods.
2. ParallelPrimeSieve now uses multi-threading by default, it does not
care about arithmetic order anymore. Please do not use
ParallelPrimeSieve directly anymore instead use the new API.
3. Renamed src/soe to src/primesieve.
4. Renamed PrimeSieveCallback<T> class to Callback<T>.
5. Moved most header files to include/primesieve.
Changes in version 4.4, 19/09/2013
==================================
This is a minor release whose sole purpose is to fix a bug in the
Makefile which is required for integrating primesieve into
Sage (http://www.sagemath.org).
1. Fixed the following bug:
$ make shared && make install PREFIX=/user-path
2. PrimeSieve does not throw an exception anymore if (start > stop)
instead it simply ignores the invalid input.
3. `make SHARED=yes` has been deprecated, use `make shared` instead.
Changes in version 4.3, 05/07/2013
==================================
This release improves primesieve as a library and adds an algorithm
to find the nth prime. The API of primesieve 4.3 is backwards
compatible but the ABI is not (you must recompile your application if
you want to link against a shared libprimesieve 4.3).
1. Support for storing primes in C++ vectors:
PrimeSieve::generatePrimes (start, stop, std::vector<T>*);
PrimeSieve::generate_N_Primes(start, n, std::vector<T>*);
2. New algorithm to find the nth prime:
PrimeSieve::nthPrime(n);
PrimeSieve::nthPrime(start, n);
3. The Makefiles now build primesieve and a static libprimesieve by
default. A shared libprimesieve can be built using:
$ make shared
4. Added a <primesieve/soe/stop_primesieve.h> header for
this commonly used exception to abort sieving.
5. Updated the documentation files: INSTALL, doc/API, doc/EXAMPLES
doc/LIBPRIMESIEVE, doc/FAQ
6. Updated the source code examples in ./examples.
7. Added the scripts/install_primesieve.sh shell script that
automatically downloads, builds and installs the latest primesieve
and libprimesieve version.
Changes in version 4.2, 10/03/2013
==================================
1. libprimesieve generates (callback) primes up to 5% faster on
little-endian CPUs (x86, x86-64) due to improved
endiansafe_cast.h (src/soe).
2. The best pre-sieve setting is now automatically chosen at
runtime, this speeds up sieving small intervals.
3. The Makefile now supports the Solaris OS.
4. Updated documentation: README, INSTALL, doc/EXAMPLES, doc/FAQ
and doc/LIBPRIMESIEVE. New files: AUTHORS and THANKS.
5. Fixed a bug in the primesieve GUI code (doc/BUGS).
6. Updated ExpressionParser.h (src/apps/*) to version 2.5.
7. Added more example programs: examples/store_primes_in_vector.cpp
and examples/nth_prime.cpp.
8. Lots of refactoring to make the code easier to understand.
API changes
-----------
The undocumented pre-sieve methods have been removed
(pre-sieving is now automatically configured at runtime).
void PrimeSieve::getPreSieve();
void PrimeSieve::setPreSieve(int);
Changes in version 4.1, 12/01/2013
==================================
1. New PrimeSieveCallback interface class that simplifies prime
number generation with classes, see doc/EXAMPLES.
2. The primesieve console (terminal) application now supports
GNU-style long options e.g. --size=256.
3. Fixed a bug (for sizeof(int) > 4) in the bit population count
algorithm, read BUGS file.
4. Updated files: README, INSTALL, doc/EXAMPLES.
5. The Makefile now uses the system's default C++ compiler instead
of GNU g++ which makes it more portable.
6. The primesieve_error class has been moved into its own file
src/soe/primesieve_error.h (previously PrimeSieve.h).
API changes
-----------
The following two overly complex PrimeSieve methods have been
removed:
void PrimeSieve::generatePrimes(uint32_t start, uint32_t stop, void (*)(uint32_t, void*), void*);
void PrimeSieve::generatePrimes(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, void (*)(uint64_t, void*), void*);
They are replaced by the following two new methods that greatly
simplify prime number generation with classes, please refer
to doc/EXAMPLES for more information.
void PrimeSieve::generatePrimes(uint32_t start, uint32_t stop, PrimeSieveCallback<uint32_t>*);
void PrimeSieve::generatePrimes(uint32_t start, uint32_t stop, PrimeSieveCallback<uint64_t>*);
Changes in version 4.0, 18/10/2012
==================================
primesieve 4.0 is a major new release. A lot of work has been put into
documentation and improving primesieve as a library. The API of
primesieve 4.0 is backward incompatible with primesieve 3.*, the few
changes are documented further down.
1. Added support for OpenMP 2.*, useful for compilers that do
not support OpenMP >= 3.0, e.g. MSVC, Apple g++.
2. New examples directory with 12 simple example programs.
3. New doc/API file that lists the public member functions of the
PrimeSieve and ParallelPrimeSieve C++ classes.
4. The Makefile is now POSIX compatible, it works with any POSIX
shell e.g. sh, bash, ash, ksh, zsh, ...
5. The Makefile now supports MinGW (with MSYS) and Cygwin.
6. Fixed a shared libprimesieve bug (read doc/BUGS).
7. Up to 10 percent faster prime number generation due to new
internal 64-bit getNextPrime() (previously 32-bit).
8. New unsynchronized ParallelPrimeSieve::generatePrimes() method
that calls back primes in parallel (read EXAMPLES).
9. Faster thread synchronization in ParallelPrimeSieve, replaced slow
OpenMP critical directive with faster omp_test_lock().
10. Optimized prime k-tuplet (twin primes, ...) counting for
out-of-order CPUs (src/soe/PrimeNumberFinder.cpp).
11. New primesieve_error() exception used for all exceptions within
PrimeSieve and ParallelPrimeSieve (read EXAMPLES).
12. New pre-sieve code (src/soe/PreSieve.cpp).
13. Ported the primesieve GUI application from Qt 4 to Qt 5.
API changes
-----------
The PrimeSieve 3.* count methods:
uint64_t getPrimeCount(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t getTwinCount (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
...
Have been renamed to:
uint64_t countPrimes (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t countTwins (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t countTriplets (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t countQuadruplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t countQuintuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t countSextuplets (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t countSeptuplets (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
Changes in version 3.8, 13/07/2012
==================================
1. Improved OOP design of WheelFactorization.h.
2. Minor speed up for big sieving primes ~2% (src/soe/EratBig.cpp),
reduced the number of operations in the main sieving loop.
3. Minor speed up for small sieving primes ~3% (src/soe/EraSmall.cpp),
new inner sieving loop without instruction dependencies that uses
only 12 asm instructions (previously 16).
4. Improved OpenMP load balance in src/soe/ParallelPrimeSieve.cpp.
5. Improved code readability of EratSmall.cpp, EratMedium.cpp,
EratBig.cpp, Erat.cpp and others.
6. The Makefile now automatically detects the CPU's L1 data cache
size on Unix-like OSes (Linux, Mac OS X).
7. Renamed ./docs to ./doc
8. Revised README.txt, added 7. Motivation.
9. Updated INSTALL, LIBPRIMESIEVE and EXAMPLES.
10. Added version #defines to PrimeSieve.h, e.g. for this release:
#define PRIMESIEVE_VERSION "3.8"
#define PRIMESIEVE_MAJOR_VERSION 3
#define PRIMESIEVE_MINOR_VERSION 8
#define PRIMESIEVE_YEAR 2012
Changes in version 3.7, 31/05/2012
==================================
1. More aggressive inlining (*-inline.h), up to 10 percent faster
prime number generation, up to 20 percent faster initialization.
2. Reduced header file dependencies, libprimesieve now only depends on
PrimeSieve.h or ParallelPrimeSieve.h (and PrimeSieve.h).
3. Updated Makefiles.
4. New template imath.h functions: isqrt(), ilog2(), isPow2(), ...
isqrt() has been rewritten using Newton's algorithm in order to
avoid rounding errors of (int)sqrt((double)n) if n > 10^15.
5. New internal Erat::getNextPrime(...) member function.
6. Replaced old C-style comments with C++ comments.
7. Updated ExpressionParser to version 2.2.
8. uin32_t has been replaced by uint_t in src/soe/*.
9. New int API for PrimeSieve and ParallelPrimeSieve objects, getters
and setters now use int instead of uint32_t.
10. Updated documentation files: README, INSTALL, LIBPRIMESIEVE,
EXAMPLES, VALGRIND, TODO, BUGS.
Changes in version 3.6, 22/04/2012
==================================
1. Improved code readability and updated source code documentation
(src/soe directory).
2. Removed unused source code. The deprecated API of
PrimeSieve <= 3.4 is not supported anymore, use
PrimeSieve::getStart() instead of PrimeSieve::getStartNumber() ...
The file EXAMPLES contains the up-to-date API.
3. src/soe/EratSmall.cpp has been enhanced to better take advantage of
Instruction-Level Parallelism.
Changes in version 3.5, 07/02/2012
==================================
1. Bug fix for big-endian CPUs (PowerPC, SPARC), see docs/BUGS.
2. The GNU Makefile now provides an option to build primesieve as
a shared library e.g. `make lib SHARED=yes`.
3. I have rewritten the main documentation files docs/LIBPRIMESIEVE
and docs/EXAMPLES.
4. I have added convenience functions to the PrimeSieve class:
void printPrimes (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
void printTwins (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
void printTriplets (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
void printQuadruplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
void printQuintuplets(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
void printSextuplets (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
void printSeptuplets (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t getPrimeCount (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t getTwinCount (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t getTripletCount (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t getQuadrupletCount(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t getQuintupletCount(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t getSextupletCount (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
uint64_t getSeptupletCount (uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
void sieve(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop);
void sieve(uint64_t start, uint64_t stop, uint32_t flags);