[#144] Another implementation of Bignum — "Dmitry Antipov" <dmitry.antipov@...>

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15 messages 2002/06/06

Re: Another implementation of Bignum

From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-06-06 09:02:44 UTC
List: ruby-core #145
>>>>> "D" == Dmitry Antipov <dmitry.antipov@mail.ru> writes:

D> I'm working on a new implementation of Bignum, which is based on
D> GNU GMP library (see http://www.swox.com/gmp). GMP implements
D> very efficient computations with arbitray-sized numbers (much faster
D> than Ruby does, especially for large numbers). My code is in alpha stage
D> for now (no crashes, but some results are spurious). New implementation
D> may be selected with `configure' switch, otherwise current (default)
D> implementation will be used. The ready-to-try patch against version
D> 1.6.7 already exists. Anybody interesting in ?

 I've not understood : the core of ruby is modified ?

 If yes, do this mean that the new version will have the same problem than
 the old version with the GNU license ?


Guy Decoux




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