Re: isqrt tweak and factor(1) questions

David Sparks via busybox <[email protected]>
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On Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 00:42, David Sparks <[email protected]> wrote:
>> TLS code has some arbitrary-precision binary code.
>  
> Ooh! I should hack on that! I notice that it lacks __int128
> support, and that could be a big speed boost. (Compiler support
> can be tested with #ifdef SIZEOF_INT128.)

Never mind; on more than 60 seconds' reading, I notice that it
*does* have 128-bit support (just disabled for code size reasons),
and, as a verbatim import, hacking on it would make merges with
upstream more difficult.

Still, maybe It can be used for factoring.  A lot of embedded
devices want TLS support, so it's "free" in such cases.
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