Hi Jordan On Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 1:24 AM Jordan LeDoux <jordan.led...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 5:27 AM Saki Takamachi <s...@sakiot.com> wrote: > >> Hi, Pierre >> >> In fact, I predict that many use cases will be covered by GMP. >> >> Still, I think that there may be cases where calculation functions like >> mainframe BCD are required, such as when calculating money. >> >> I am unable to decide whether it is correct to deprecate BCMath and only >> use GMP. >> >> I'd like to hear other people's opinions as well. >> >> Regards. >> >> Saki >> > > GMP cannot be used in any reasonable way to implement things like sin() or > cos(). It is *technically* possible, but not at all reasonable. > it is the reason I mentioned mpfr, https://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr.html#Miscellaneous-Functions the challenge I noticed in a couple of threads recently is the mixup of radically different usages, like financial numbers with basic ops (+/- eventually *//) and others. they cannot use the same tools, most of the times. However there are libs with different types or mode of operations, which could be a better fit than what we do now. It is not an easy research and priorities need to be clear. BCMath is one of the worst and slowest implementations of arbitrary > precision decimals. > what I was trying to express :) best , >
