factor: expand comments

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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Denys Vlasenko 2017-04-09 23:12:38 +02:00
parent 1d232fd440
commit 7e5f2f3b51

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@ -107,9 +107,12 @@ static NOINLINE void factorize(wide_t N)
factor = 3;
factor2 = 3 * 3;
for (;;) {
while ((N % factor) == 0) {
/* The division is the most costly part of the loop.
* On 64bit CPUs, takes at best 12 cycles, often ~20.
*/
while ((N % factor) == 0) { /* not likely */
N = N / factor;
printf(" %u"HALF_FMT"", factor);
printf(" %u"HALF_FMT, factor);
max_factor = isqrt_odd(N);
}
next_factor:
@ -122,8 +125,8 @@ static NOINLINE void factorize(wide_t N)
factor += 2;
/* Rudimentary wheel sieving: skip multiples of 3:
* Every third odd number is divisible by three and thus isn't a prime:
* 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37...
* ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ _ ^
* 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47...
* ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ ^ ^
* (^ = primes, _ = would-be-primes-if-not-divisible-by-5)
*/
--count3;