On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:04 AM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Bill Baxter: > >> Though they may be useful, those don't look to have anything to do >> with formatting user types into strings, which is the subject at hand. > > Don has said: "But the performance would still be very poor, and that's much > more difficult to solve." And those links show a way to quickly convert a > large multi-precision integer into a string. What is that I am missing?
Maybe it's just my ignorance of BigNum issues, but those links look to me to be about divsion and not generating string representations. Are those somehow synonymous in BigInt land? --bb
