你的问题是判断一个特定的数字是否是质数吗?然后你需要一个质数测试(很简单)。或者你需要一个给定数字之前的所有质数吗?在这种情况下，素筛是很好的(简单，但需要内存)。或者你需要一个数的质因数?这将需要分解(如果你真的想要最有效的方法，对于较大的数字很难)。你看到的数字有多大?16位?32位?更大的吗?

一种聪明而有效的方法是预先计算质数表，并使用位级编码将它们保存在文件中。文件被认为是一个长位向量，而位n表示整数n。如果n是素数，则其位设置为1，否则为0。查找非常快(您可以计算字节偏移量和位掩码)，并且不需要在内存中加载文件。

i wrote it today in C,compiled with tcc, figured out during preparation of compititive exams several years back. don't know if anyone already have wrote it alredy. it really fast(but you should decide whether it is fast or not). took one or two minuts to findout about 1,00,004 prime numbers between 10 and 1,00,00,000 on i7 processor with average 32% CPU use. as you know, only those can be prime which have last digit either 1,3,7 or 9 and to check if that number is prime or not, you have to divide that number by previously found prime numbers only. so first take group of four number = {1,3,7,9}, test it by dividing by known prime numbers, if reminder is non zero then number is prime, add it to prime number array. then add 10 to group so it becomes {11,13,17,19} and repeat the process.

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {    
    int nums[4]={1,3,7,9};
    int primes[100000];
    primes[0]=2;
    primes[1]=3;
    primes[2]=5;
    primes[3]=7;
    int found = 4;
    int got = 1;
    int m=0;
    int upto = 1000000;
    for(int i=0;i<upto;i++){
        //printf("iteration number: %d\n",i);
        for(int j=0;j<4;j++){
            m = nums[j]+10;
            //printf("m = %d\n",m);
            nums[j] = m;
            got = 1;
            for(int k=0;k<found;k++){
                //printf("testing with %d\n",primes[k]);
                if(m%primes[k]==0){
                    got = 0;
                    //printf("%d failed for %d\n",m,primes[k]);
                    break;
                }
            }
            if(got==1){
                //printf("got new prime: %d\n",m);
                primes[found]= m;
                found++;
            }
        }
    }
    printf("found total %d prime numbers between 1 and %d",found,upto*10);
    return 0;
}

我总是用这种方法来计算筛子算法后面的质数。

void primelist()
 {
   for(int i = 4; i < pr; i += 2) mark[ i ] = false;
   for(int i = 3; i < pr; i += 2) mark[ i ] = true; mark[ 2 ] = true;
   for(int i = 3, sq = sqrt( pr ); i < sq; i += 2)
       if(mark[ i ])
          for(int j = i << 1; j < pr; j += i) mark[ j ] = false;
  prime[ 0 ] = 2; ind = 1;
  for(int i = 3; i < pr; i += 2)
    if(mark[ i ]) ind++; printf("%d\n", ind);
 }

他，他我知道我是一个回答老问题的问题巫师，但我只是在网上搜索实现有效质数测试的方法时发现了这个问题。

到目前为止，我认为最快的质数测试算法是强或然质数(SPRP)。我引用Nvidia CUDA论坛:

One of the more practical niche problems in number theory has to do with identification of prime numbers. Given N, how can you efficiently determine if it is prime or not? This is not just a thoeretical problem, it may be a real one needed in code, perhaps when you need to dynamically find a prime hash table size within certain ranges. If N is something on the order of 2^30, do you really want to do 30000 division tests to search for any factors? Obviously not. The common practical solution to this problem is a simple test called an Euler probable prime test, and a more powerful generalization called a Strong Probable Prime (SPRP). This is a test that for an integer N can probabilistically classify it as prime or not, and repeated tests can increase the correctness probability. The slow part of the test itself mostly involves computing a value similar to A^(N-1) modulo N. Anyone implementing RSA public-key encryption variants has used this algorithm. It's useful both for huge integers (like 512 bits) as well as normal 32 or 64 bit ints. The test can be changed from a probabilistic rejection into a definitive proof of primality by precomputing certain test input parameters which are known to always succeed for ranges of N. Unfortunately the discovery of these "best known tests" is effectively a search of a huge (in fact infinite) domain. In 1980, a first list of useful tests was created by Carl Pomerance (famous for being the one to factor RSA-129 with his Quadratic Seive algorithm.) Later Jaeschke improved the results significantly in 1993. In 2004, Zhang and Tang improved the theory and limits of the search domain. Greathouse and Livingstone have released the most modern results until now on the web, at http://math.crg4.com/primes.html, the best results of a huge search domain.

更多信息请看这里: http://primes.utm.edu/prove/prove2_3.html和http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=70483

如果您只是需要一种方法来生成非常大的质数，而不关心生成所有<整数n的质数，您可以使用Lucas-Lehmer检验来验证梅森质数。梅森质数的形式是2^p -1。我认为卢卡斯-莱默检验是目前发现的梅森质数最快的算法。

如果你不仅想使用最快的算法，而且还想使用最快的硬件，那就尝试使用Nvidia CUDA来实现它，为CUDA写一个内核，然后在GPU上运行。

如果你发现足够大的质数，你甚至可以赚到一些钱，EFF提供的奖金从5万美元到25万美元不等: https://www.eff.org/awards/coop

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

void main()
{
    int num,i,j,prime;
    cout<<"Enter the upper limit :";
    cin>>num;

    cout<<"Prime numbers till "<<num<<" are :2, ";

    for(i=3;i<=num;i++)
    {
        prime=1;
        for(j=2;j<i;j++)
        {
            if(i%j==0)
            {
                prime=0;
                break;
            }
        }

        if(prime==1)
            cout<<i<<", ";

    }
}

#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
    long long unsigned x,y,b,z,e,r,c;
    scanf("%llu",&x);
    if(x<2)return 0;
    scanf("%llu",&y);
    if(y<x)return 0;
    if(x==2)printf("|2");
    if(x%2==0)x+=1;
    if(y%2==0)y-=1;
    for(b=x;b<=y;b+=2)
    {
        z=b;e=0;
        for(c=2;c*c<=z;c++)
        {
            if(z%c==0)e++;
            if(e>0)z=3;
        }
        if(e==0)
        {
            printf("|%llu",z);
            r+=1;
        }
    }
    printf("|\n%llu outputs...\n",r);
    scanf("%llu",&r);
}