Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-07-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:46 AM +0200 7/1/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 shippin

Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-07-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Isn't it e

Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-06-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
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 desig

Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-06-25 Thread Jerome Quelin
On Friday 25 June 2004 03:47, André Pang wrote: > It only seems fair to be using the same library as Python, if you want > a decent bignum speed comparison. We don't mind being unfair, as long as parrot's winning :-) Jerome -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-06-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
André pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/06/2004, at 6:31 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> 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 t

Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-06-24 Thread André Pang
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

Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-06-24 Thread Uri Guttman
> "LT" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LT> Uri Guttman wrote: >>> "SB" == Scott Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Has anybody inquired to the GMP project as to the possibility >> of SB> relaxing that restriction? If GMP truly is the best bignum SB> impleme

Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-06-24 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Uri Guttman wrote: "SB" == Scott Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> Has anybody inquired to the GMP project as to the possibility of SB> relaxing that restriction? If GMP truly is the best bignum SB> implementation, I definitely think it's worth asking. Not AFAIK. Please try. i still ha

our own decimal math lib

2004-06-23 Thread Uri Guttman
> "SB" == Scott Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:12, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> The license issues there require that the full source of GMP ship with any >> binary copy. (the license has no "provide a place to fetch it" >> provision--the source is required)