Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Juan Jose > Garcia-Ripoll<juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Juan Jose >> Garcia-Ripoll<juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> Actually, inside Sage, GMP is not used, but IMPR, which, if my >>>> understanding >>>> of it is correct, is a GPL2 version of GMP. It was forked because >>>> development of GMP was too slow, with no assembler code added for newer >>>> Intel CPUs, despite numerous patches sent in. Finally people got fed up and >>>> forked GMP. >>> I did not know about IMPR, but if it is GPL2 we can not use it: >> Seems MPIR is LGPL, not GPL, and stems from GMP 4.2.1 It should thus >> be a straightforward replacement for GMP and ECL could be taught to >> use it. > > Contrary to GMP, MPIR seems to detect the right processor in Solaris. > > Juanjo >
I think a lot of people got frustrated with GMP, which is one of the reasons it was not used in Sage. I'm sure others can tell you more of the story, but the fact MPIR detects the right processor, must be some good news. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
