On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Matt Whitlock <b...@mattwhitlock.name> wrote: > On Monday, 7 April 2014, at 5:38 pm, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Nikita Schmidt >> <nik...@megiontechnologies.com> wrote: >> > Regarding the choice of fields, any implementation of this BIP will >> > need big integer arithmetic to do base-58 anyway. >> Nah, it doesn't. E.g. >> https://gitorious.org/bitcoin/libblkmaker/source/eb33f9c8e441ffef457a79d76ceed1ea20ab3059:base58.c > That only *decodes* Base58Check. It has no encode function, which would > require biginteger division.
Yes thats only a decode but the same process (long division with manual carries) works just fine the other way. There is absolutely no need to use big integers for this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
