Factoring small numbers

[Jeroen Demeyer <jdemeyer@cage.ugent.be>]

Dear pari-dev,

While working on Sage today, I was very amazed that GAP is much faster 
than PARI for factoring small numbers.

For example, for factoring 19180172397815991981, GAP beats PARI by a 
factor of about 20. As far as I know, PARI uses rho + MPQS while GAP 
only uses Pollard rho. So perhaps PARI shouldn't use MPQS for numbers of 
this size.

Any opinions?


Cheers,
Jeroen.