Portability | portable |
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Stability | experimental |
Maintainer | Sebastian Fischer (sebf@informatik.uni-kiel.de) |
This Haskell library provides an efficient lazy wheel sieve for prime generation inspired by Lazy wheel sieves and spirals of primes by Colin Runciman (http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ftpdir/pub/colin/jfp97lw.ps.gz) and The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes by Melissa O'Neil (http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf).
- primes :: [Integer]
- wheelSieve :: Int -> [Integer]
Documentation
This global constant is an infinite list of prime numbers. It is
generated by a lazy wheel sieve and shared across the whole program
run. If you are concerned about the memory requirements of sharing
many primes you can call the function wheelSieve
directly.
This function returns an infinite list of prime numbers by sieving
with a wheel that cancels the multiples of the first n
primes
where n
is the argument given to wheelSieve
. Don't use too
large wheels. The number 6
is a good value to pass to this
function. Larger wheels improve the run time at the cost of higher
memory requirements.