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Re: logxxx and bignums
- To: Dirk Herrmann <dirk at ida dot ing dot tu-bs dot de>
- Subject: Re: logxxx and bignums
- From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
- Date: 20 Jan 2000 15:27:00 +0100
- Cc: "Dale P. Smith" <dpsm at en dot com>, Guile Mailing List <guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, Greg Harvey <Greg dot Harvey at thezone dot net>
- Cc: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0001201351130.20690-100000@marvin.ida.ing.tu-bs.de>
Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:
> I have another question: Didn't Greg Harvey try to change guile't bignum
> interface to use gmp (The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library)? In
> gmp these functions are already implemented.
>
> Maybe it would make more sense to finish Greg's changes and have guile use
> gmp. Currently, after a couple of years, gmp seems to be under active
> development again (see http://www.swox.com/gmp/). According to their
> web page the release of version 3.0 is scheduled for march.
I think this would be a very good idea, but since this will probably
take some time, I still think it's a good idea to fix the logxxx
functions now.
Also, we probably should integrate GOOPS first and add the bignums as
methods on the arithmetic operators...