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Title: Gauss's complex multiplication algorithm
Post by: ker2x on July 13, 2011, 08:51:19 AM
anyone tried that ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm#Fast_multiplication_algorithms_for_large_inputs
i see 2 MAD here, which is very efficient on GPGPU.


Title: Re: Gauss's complex multiplication algorithm
Post by: cbuchner1 on July 13, 2011, 04:53:26 PM
anyone tried that ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm#Fast_multiplication_algorithms_for_large_inputs
i see 2 MAD here, which is very efficient on GPGPU.

I believe it makes sense mostly for bignums, where multiplication is particularly expensive but addition less so.