Felix Gallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan, any feeling about RISC vs. CISC? Because to me, this seems > like a good place to punt, and provide two, maybe three mults:
Not the best idea. The same argument would hold for all operations that could overflow. With such a strategy will end with MMD tables that blow all processor caches. If you need a more customized behavior you can always override e.g. multiplication. If you need that really fast to, you can provide a custom PMC. > Another concern besides speed might be sizeof(PMC) for each of > the options...some of the genome/nasa guys could get kinda > twitchy if bignum is 1k per, etc., etc. BigNums grow on demand. It depends on value and precision. > F. leo
