Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : libcrypt-dh-gmp-perl Version : 0.00009 Upstream Author : Daisuke Maki <dais...@endeworks.jp> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-DH-GMP/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Crypt::DH replacement that uses GMP Directly Crypt::DH::GMP is a (somewhat) portable replacement to Crypt::DH, implemented mostly in C. In the beginning, there was Crypt::DH. However, Crypt::DH suffers from a couple of problems: GMP/Pari libraries are almost always required; Crypt::DH suffers from having Math::BigInt in between GMP. Instantiating an object comes with a relatively high cost, and if you make many computations in one go, your program will suffer dramatically because of this. Crypt::DH::GMP attempts to alleviate these problems by providing a Crypt::DH-compatible layer, which, instead of doing calculations via Math::BigInt, directly works with libgmp in C. This means that essentially 2 call stacks worth of expensive Perl method calls are eliminated and also only load 1 (Crypt::DH::GMP) module instead of 3 (Crypt::DH + Math::BigInt + Math::BigInt::GMP) is needed. These add up to a fairly significant increase in performance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110105102451.ga6...@belanna.comodo.priv.at
