Hello bearophile,
Steven Schveighoffer:
What's wrong with d2's bigint that Don has written?
MPIR is "not invented here" :-) Moving part of the development of a
very tricky part of code full of long asm routines (see their amount
of code finely tuned for different CPUs) to someone else that has more
resources and dedication is sometimes positive. It frees Don to do
something else for D, allows to use potentially less buggy code
(because more people use the same lib), and MPIR contains several good
numerical algos and numeric types that are missing in Don's bigint.
If I'm remembering correctly who's who, it reasonably likely that Don had
a hand in some of the code one or the other of those libs. Someone around
here has contributed to some high performance numerics libs.
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