[ruby-core:56923] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8796] Use GMP to accelerate Bignum operations

Issue #8796 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto).

Assignee set to akr (Akira Tanaka)

This is internal.  So go ahead and experiment.

Matz.

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Feature #8796: Use GMP to accelerate Bignum operations
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8796#change-41477

Author: akr (Akira Tanaka)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: akr (Akira Tanaka)
Category: 
Target version: 


How about using GMP to accelerate Bignum operations?

GMP: The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
http://gmplib.org/

I wrote a simple patch to use GMP to accelerate Bignum multiplication.

If a user don't want to use GMP, a configure option, --without-gmp,
disables this feature.
Since GMP is licensed as LGPL, some people would need it.
However I think most people can accept LGPL as Ruby 1.8's regex engine.
So, my patch uses GMP by default, if it is available.

It converts bignums from RBignum to mpz_t and back for each
large Bignum multiplication.
RBignum structure itself is not changed and ABI compatible.
(So, this is different from ko1's idea mentioned in Feature #6083)

The conversion cost is O(n).
It is negligible for operations slower than O(n) with large inputs.
Multiplication is a kind of such operation.

I measured the performance as follows.

  % ./ruby -I.ext/x86_64-linux -r-test-/bignum -e '
  methods = %i[big_mul_normal big_mul_karatsuba big_mul_toom3 big_mul_gmp]
  m = 1000
  n1 = 3**60
  100.times {
    n1 = n1 * (n1 >> (n1.size*8/15*14))
    n2 = n1 + 1
    bits = n1.size*8
    methods.dup.each {|meth|
      t1 = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, :nanoseconds)
      n1.send(meth, n2) rescue next
      (m-1).times { n1.send(meth, n2) }
      t2 = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, :nanoseconds)
      t = (t2 - t1)*1e-9 / m
      puts "#{bits},#{t},#{meth.to_s.sub(/big_mul_/, "")}"
      methods.delete meth if 1.0/m < t
    }
    STDOUT.flush
  }
  '

It seems GMP is faster when multiplication arguments are longer than 1000 bits
on my environment.
See bignum-mul-gmp.png for details.

I guess other operations, division and radix conversion, can also be faster using GMP.

Any comments?



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