Re: standard representations

[Tim Jenness]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> At 12:34 PM 1/2/01 -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> >If you want to experiment with modifying perl5's bigints and bigfloats
> >with a tuned library to get an idea of how much speed we're talking about,
> >gmp is probably the best bet to get a good estimate with the least amount
> >of effort (though it doesn't look as if it's been ported to VMS, and it
> >didn't build for me under Solaris 8 when I just tested it ...). If you
> >want to redistribute the code, of course, then you need to think about
> >licensing issues.
>
> I think gmp/fgmp is probably the best place to start, if I can get the fgmp
> code building with enough abuse. It ought to be simple enough, and we'll
> need to smack it around some for perl's memory management anyway.

Math::GMP is on CPAN already. It does operator overloading.


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Tim Jenness
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