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Re: guile & r5rs

To: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
Subject: Re: guile & r5rs
From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se>
Date: 24 Nov 1998 13:12:44 +0100
Cc: hjstein@bfr.co.il (Harvey J. Stein), Jean-Paul Roy <roy@unice.fr>, guile@cygnus.com
Cc: mdj@nada.kth.se
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Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:

> What I could really use is a good bignum sqrt algorithm.

I've heard that the GNU gmp library is very good.  How does gmp
performance compare to SCM bignums?  Maybe we should switch to using
the gmp library?

/mdj

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