[Haskell-beginners] Performance of Prime Generator

[Ertugrul Söylemez]

Zhi-Qiang Lei <zhiqiang.lei at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, thanks, so far I have tried wheel only and Sieve of Eratosthenes
> only approaches. They both failed. When the numbers is between
> 999900000 and 1000000000, they can take more than a hour on my laptop.

Indeed, you're right.  The method is too slow for numbers of that scale.
I suggest trying the Sieve of Atkin, which performs quadratically faster
than the Sieve of Eratosthenes.

I haven't tried it, but an equivalent C implementation can easily
compute the first 10^9 prime numbers within seconds.


Greets,
Ertugrul

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