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Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes

From	Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes
Date	2013-06-05 09:47 +0200
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Am 05.06.2013 02:24, schrieb markspace:
> On 6/4/2013 2:54 PM, Sebastian wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I'd like to start an open discussion on issues involving the Streams
>> API. As an exercise, I have looked at generating the first n primes,
>> for some given n, using the sieve of Eratosthenes. It seemed a
>> plausible enough proposition, seeing that the sieve involves repeatedly
>> filtering a sequence of integers.
>
>
> I don't think it's plausible or a good implementation. The point of this
> particular sieve is that it relies on easily skipping past values and
> only accessing the one's you want. For example, in an array, you can
> easily compute the even numbers by adding +2 to the previous offset.
> Multiples of 3 are found by adding +3 to the previous offset. Etc.
>

Indeed, it may be said that this particular implementation (and many
others often presented as the Sieve of Eratosthenes) really isn't the
sieve, but just a naive version of trial division. Cf. this paper by
Melissa E. O’Neil: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf

But as I said before, that wasn't really my point.

-- Sebastian

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Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-04 23:54 +0200
  Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-06-04 19:35 -0300
    Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-05 09:03 +0200
      Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-05 09:44 +0200
        Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-06-05 17:43 -0300
          Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-10 01:27 +0200
            Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-06-09 22:28 -0300
              Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-10 19:43 +0200
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-06-10 13:18 -0700
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-11 23:27 +0200
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-12 10:32 +0200
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-12 14:37 +0200
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-06-12 12:05 -0700
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-12 22:53 +0200
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-06-15 15:18 -0700
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-16 22:52 +0200
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-06-16 21:56 -0300
                Re: Lazy primes with Java 8 (was Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes) Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-18 23:18 +0200
  Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-06-04 17:24 -0700
    Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-05 09:09 +0200
      Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-06-05 09:45 -0700
        Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-05 21:32 +0200
    Re: Java 8 Streams and Eratosthenes Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-06-05 09:47 +0200

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