On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 9/7/10 2:35 PM, Bill Hart wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> After really a lot of people from Sage related projects and elsewhere >> wrote to >> me and said they'd support a BSD licensed bignum library, I finally >> decided to >> go ahead with creating such a library. > > > Could you comment on the relationship of this with GMP/MPIR? Is it a > competitor, but with no shared code? > > Thanks, > > Jason
It seems that nobody responded to Jason's post. But my understanding is also that bsdnt is a competitor to GMP/MPIR, with no shared code. However, note that the second one enters the BSD-licensed space, e.g., almost the whole world of scientific Python code, EPD, etc., then such a library basically doesn't have much competition, and GMP/MPIR are irrelevant. Bsdnt will be relevant to Sage, since it (1) distracts developers from working on GMP/MPIR, and (2) attracts new developers to work on bignum code, which can get later included in GMP/MPIR/Sage. -- William -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
