这是找到从1到n的所有质数的最快算法(在我的电脑上，它只花了0.004秒就找到了从1到1000000的所有质数)。

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

double FindPrime(bool* array, int size){
clock_t start;
double runtime;
for (int i = 2; i < size; i++)
    array[i] = true;
start = clock();
for (int i = 2; i <= size; i++)
    if (array[i])
        for (int j = 2 * i; j < size; j += i)
            array[j] = false;
runtime = (double)(clock() - start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
return runtime;
}


int main() {
ofstream fout("prime.txt");
int n = 0;
cout << "Enter the upper limit of prime numbers searching algorithm:";
cin >> n;
bool* array = new bool[n + 1];
double duration = FindPrime(array, n + 1);
printf("\n%f seconds.\n", duration);
for (int i = 2; i <= n; i++)
    if (array[i])
        fout << i << endl;
fout.close();

return 0;
}

一个非常快速的Atkin Sieve的实现是Dan Bernstein的primegen。这个筛子比埃拉托色尼的筛子更有效率。他的页面有一些基准测试信息。

有一个100%的数学测试可以检查一个数字P是质数还是合数，叫做AKS质数测试。

概念很简单:给定一个数字P，如果(x-1)^P - (x^P-1)的所有系数都能被P整除，那么P是一个质数，否则它是一个合数。

例如，给定P = 3，会给出多项式:

   (x-1)^3 - (x^3 - 1)
 = x^3 + 3x^2 - 3x - 1 - (x^3 - 1)
 = 3x^2 - 3x

系数都能被3整除，所以这个数是素数。

P = 4不是质数的例子是:

   (x-1)^4 - (x^4-1)
 = x^4 - 4x^3 + 6x^2 - 4x + 1 - (x^4 - 1)
 = -4x^3 + 6x^2 - 4x

这里我们可以看到系数6不能被4整除，因此它不是质数。

多项式(x-1)^P有P+1项，可以用组合法找到。因此，这个测试将在O(n)个运行时间内运行，所以我不知道这有多有用，因为你可以简单地从0到p遍历I，然后测试剩余的部分。

如果它必须非常快，你可以包括一个质数列表: http://www.bigprimes.net/archive/prime/

如果你只想知道某个数是不是质数，维基百科上列出了各种质数判别法。它们可能是确定大数是否为质数的最快方法，特别是因为它们可以告诉你一个数是否为质数。

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int set [1000000];

int main (){

    for (int i=0; i<1000000; i++){
        set [i] = 0;
    }
    int set_size= 1000;
    set [set_size];
    set [0] = 2;
    set [1] = 3;
    int Ps = 0;
    int last = 2;

    cout << 2 << " " << 3 << " ";

    for (int n=1; n<10000; n++){
        int t = 0;
        Ps = (n%2)+1+(3*n);
        for (int i=0; i==i; i++){
            if (set [i] == 0) break;
            if (Ps%set[i]==0){
                t=1;
                break;
            }
        }
        if (t==0){
            cout << Ps << " ";
            set [last] = Ps;
            last++;
        }
    }
    //cout << last << endl;


    cout << endl;

    system ("pause");
    return 0;
}

I know it's somewhat later, but this could be useful to people arriving here from searches. Anyway, here's some JavaScript that relies on the fact that only prime factors need to be tested, so the earlier primes generated by the code are re-used as test factors for later ones. Of course, all even and mod 5 values are filtered out first. The result will be in the array P, and this code can crunch 10 million primes in under 1.5 seconds on an i7 PC (or 100 million in about 20). Rewritten in C it should be very fast.

var P = [1, 2], j, k, l = 3

for (k = 3 ; k < 10000000 ; k += 2)
{
  loop: if (++l < 5)
  {
    for (j = 2 ; P[j] <= Math.sqrt(k) ; ++j)
      if (k % P[j] == 0) break loop

    P[P.length] = k
  }
  else l = 0
}