bigint-gcd

Greater common divisor (gcd) of two BigInt values using Lehmer's GCD algorithm. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_common_divisor#Lehmer's_GCD_algorithm. On my tests it is faster than Euclidean algorithm starting from 80-bit integers.

A version 1.0.2 also has something similar to "Subquadratic GCD" (see https://gmplib.org/manual/Subquadratic-GCD ), which is faster for large bigints (> 65000 bits), it should has better time complexity in case the multiplication is subquadratic, which is true in Chrome 93.

Installation

$ npm install bigint-gcd

Usage

import bigIntGCD from './node_modules/bigint-gcd/gcd.js';

console.log(bigIntGCD(120n, 18n));

Performance:

The benchmark (see benchmark.html) resutls under Opera 87:

bit size	bigint-gcd	Julia 1.7.3
64	0.000320ms	0.000258ms
128	0.003000ms	0.000470ms
256	0.004300ms	0.001460ms
512	0.008200ms	0.003021ms
1024	0.018000ms	0.006235ms
2048	0.048000ms	0.013171ms
4096	0.090000ms	0.028502ms
8192	0.220000ms	0.066180ms
16384	0.590000ms	0.165383ms
32768	1.830000ms	0.459387ms
65536	5.600000ms	1.395260ms
131072	12.400000ms	3.836070ms
262144	32.800000ms	10.284430ms
524288	89.000000ms	27.697000ms
1048576	216.000000ms	123.401800ms
2097152	516.000000ms	185.817000ms
4194304	1241.000000ms	458.690400ms
8388608	2949.000000ms	1093.280500ms

Benchmark:

import {default as LehmersGCD} from './gcd.js';

function EuclideanGCD(a, b) {
  while (b !== 0n) {
    const r = a % b;
    a = b;
    b = r;
  }
  return a;
}

function ctz4(n) {
  return 31 - Math.clz32(n & -n);
}
const BigIntCache = new Array(32).fill(0n).map((x, i) => BigInt(i));
function ctz1(bigint) {
  return BigIntCache[ctz4(Number(BigInt.asUintN(32, bigint)))];
}
function BinaryGCD(a, b) {
  if (a === 0n) {
    return b;
  }
  if (b === 0n) {
    return a;
  }
  const k = ctz1(a | b);
  a >>= k;
  b >>= k;
  while (b !== 0n) {
    b >>= ctz1(b);
    if (a > b) {
      const t = b;
      b = a;
      a = t;
    }
    b -= a;
  }
  return k === 0n ? a : a << k;
}

function FibonacciNumber(n) {
  console.assert(n > 0);
  var a = 0n;
  var b = 1n;
  for (var i = 1; i < n; i += 1) {
    var c = a + b;
    a = b;
    b = c;
  }
  return b;
}

function RandomBigInt(size) {
  if (size <= 32) {
    return BigInt(Math.floor(Math.random() * 2**size));
  }
  const q = Math.floor(size / 2);
  return (RandomBigInt(size - q) << BigInt(q)) | RandomBigInt(q);
}

function test(a, b, f) {
  const g = EuclideanGCD(a, b);
  const count = 100000;
  console.time();
  for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
    const I = BigInt(i);
    if (f(a * I, b * I) !== g * I) {
      throw new Error();
    }
  }
  console.timeEnd();
}

const a1 = RandomBigInt(128);
const b1 = RandomBigInt(128);

test(a1, b1, LehmersGCD);
// default: 426.200927734375 ms
test(a1, b1, EuclideanGCD);
// default: 1136.77294921875 ms
test(a1, b1, BinaryGCD);
// default: 1456.793212890625 ms

const a = FibonacciNumber(186n);
const b = FibonacciNumber(186n - 1n);

test(a, b, LehmersGCD);
// default: 459.796875 ms
test(a, b, EuclideanGCD);
// default: 2565.871826171875 ms
test(a, b, BinaryGCD);
// default: 1478.333984375 ms