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Re: logxxx and bignums


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...

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