Hello, Recently I was trying to fix and clean some of the stuff within the BCmath extension along with Girgias who helped me. I wanted to enrich this extension with similar functions that GMP contains and improve the performance, however, I went to some conclusions and stopped it.
1. BCMath extension isn't fast enough compared to other existing arbitrary precision PHP extensions. Comparison: https://php-decimal.github.io/#performance 2. BCMath doesn't have OO API and thus it may break the backward compatibility as Claude noticed. 3. GMP GNU library provides support for float numbers, however, its functionality is not exposed in the PHP extension. And BCMath doesn't provide as many functions as GMP. And I understood that the BCMath extension should be abandoned eventually when the GMP library is properly extended. There is no need for 2 arbitrary precision extensions complementary to each other but for the rich one having all of the functionalities. I don't want to discourage you, because there is clearly a need for such functions. Speaking from my perspective I would rather invest time into the GMP extension than extend the BCMath extension. If anyone also thought about this direction I could help and join forces to have one proper math library in PHP. Kind regards, Jorg
