On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-1] André Pang wrote:
> On 24/06/2004, at 6:31 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>
> >> i still have my stillborn bignum (using bcd registers and efficient
> >> algorithms) implementation if anyone wants to pick it up. i have some
> >> working base code and the overall design.
> >
> > The major problem is: we need bignum now^Wtomorrow^WRSN. The Pie-thon
> > benchmarks does use long (integer?) arithmetics: +, - *, //, % AFAIK.
>
> Is there a big problem with using GMP for the purposes of the demo?
Nope. Nor, if the freeze/thaw system is representation-neutral, as a
plugin option for parrot itself. There are just some license issues (or
I'm reading it wrong, which is an issue itself :) that make shipping GMP
with parrot problematic.
Dan
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