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by UncleOxidant 5558 days ago
Exactly, If I were using node and needed to calculate primes I'd probably write some C++ code to handle that part and run it as a server in a separate process that can be called asynchronously from node.
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Hopefully you'd try another algorithm before you did that ;). Primality tests are one of the most highly understood and well documented areas of CS - trial division has been obsolete since, what, 1640?
... trial division has been obsolete since, what, 1640?

Longer than that. The sieve of Eratosthenes is attributed to Eratosthenes, who lived from 276 BC to 195 BC.

Hah, this exact thing occurred to me lying in bed last night :)