| 1 | Thu Jul 17 10:15:59 1997 Jens Schmidt <schmidt@mathematik.uni-kl.de> |
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| 3 | New features in Factory, version 1.3a: |
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| 4 | ====================================== |
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| 5 | Besides minor changes at 'source code level' (bug fixes, new features) |
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| 6 | which are not really visible to the user in general there are quite a lot |
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| 7 | of changes at 'organization level' (aka 'preprocessor level') and at |
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| 8 | 'distribution level' (configure, Makefile). |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | Source code level: |
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| 12 | ------------------ |
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| 13 | o Serious bug in univariate factorization in characterstic 0 fixed (by |
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| 14 | Ruediger Stobbe). |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | o New gcd algorithm (sparse modular), not fully tested by now (contributed |
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| 17 | by Marion Bruder). Switch on with SW_USE_SPARSEMOD. |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | o Various minor bug fixes. |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | Organization level: |
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| 24 | ------------------- |
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| 25 | o Factory translates now on Macintosh with Metroworks |
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| 26 | CodeWarrior Academic Pro 11 (changes by Wilfred Pohl) |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | o So called 'new' memory manager (written by Ruediger Stobbe) added to |
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| 29 | distribution. So far no timigs available which memory manager is faster. |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | o ASSERT, DEBOUT, TIMING macros streamlined |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | o Factory's IO completely re-organized (that was a mess!). It is now |
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| 34 | possible to switch off everything which is related to stream IO (use |
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| 35 | --disbale-streamio option to configure). This way it is possible to link |
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| 36 | Factory without libg++. Changes include: |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | - everything related to stream IO wrapped by '#ifndef NOSTREAMIO' |
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| 39 | - all error messages/debug output messages rewritten so that they use the |
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| 40 | ASSERT and DEBOUT macros |
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| 41 | - furthermore, it was necessary to change the way the GF(q) tables are |
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| 42 | read. As a consequence, the format of the GF(q) tables slightly |
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| 43 | changed, too. You have to generate/get them from net by new. |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | Distribution level: |
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| 47 | ------------------- |
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| 48 | o The organization of the distribution as well as the compile/install |
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| 49 | procedure totally changed. It is now more GNU-like. See the INSTALL |
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| 50 | file and the README file for more information. |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | o The file names of the template sources changed. To make them less |
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| 53 | canonical, all names are prefixed with 'ftmpl_' ('Factory template') now. |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | o The installation target directories and their structure changed a little |
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| 56 | bit. See the INSTALL file for more information. |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | Before May 3 1997 Jens Schmidt <schmidt@mathematik.uni-kl.de> |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | New features in Factory, version 1.2c: |
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| 63 | ====================================== |
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| 64 | Version 1.2c is a more or less inofficial version distributed with |
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| 65 | Singular 1.0. I hope it does not distribute too far... The description of |
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| 66 | new features to version 1.3a cope the description of new features to this |
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| 67 | version. |
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