From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-30T00:43:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Licensing (was: Float and Bignum)

On Friday 29 October 2004 04:11 am, Tadashi Saito wrote:
| Hi all,
| (This is my first English post; Sorry for my broken English ;| )

Mine's probably worse and I'm English ;|  No worries... :)

| On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:57:43 +0900
|
| "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com> wrote:
| > Thoughts?
|
| You love GMP?  

I wouldn't call it "love". I'd call it "work smarter, not harder".

| If so, you can use GMP with Ruby now. 
| http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/libgmp-ruby/

Yes, I am aware. Thanks. I will contact author too. My plan is

  A) Compile advantages vs. disadvantages
  B) Contact GMP and see how they think
  C) If A and B are good, present RCR

Fair plan?

| I think it is natural to be used GMP as extension library, because
| it is too big compared with bignum.c, and it include many assembly
| codes. (These may be good and special point of GMP, IMHO.)

Yes, there are of course pros and cons to all things. Question is whether pros 
far out weigh cons?

T.