From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zznmeb@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T10:01:07+09:00
Subject: Re: BigNum optimizations

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: BigNum optimizations"
>    on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:11:34 +0900, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zznmeb@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |It might be easier to link to a standard open-source multi-precision
> |library that it would be to revise the one that's built into the Ruby
> |interpreters. I haven't benchmarked these against each other, but the
> |two I know about are GMP http://gmplib.org/ and CLN
> |http://www.ginac.de/CLN/. Both are GPL.
>
> We cannot link pure GPLed library to Ruby for licensing issue.  Last
> time I checked none of these multi precision numeric libraries
> satisfied our criteria (license, portability, etc).  GMP (or CLN or
> whatever) can be used via extension, and we are happy to offer help if
> required.

I just checked ... GMP is LGPL. Would that work?
>
>                                                        matz.
>
>
>



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