From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-06-11T15:37:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [Security] Ruby 1.8.6-pl369 released

Hi,

In message "Re: [Security] Ruby 1.8.6-pl369 released"
    on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:19:45 +0900, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> writes:

|> Could be, if we can define "reasonable range".
|
|Perhaps it could be set by a variable (like $KCODE).

I, sort of, hesitate to introduce a new global state to the library.

|It might be useful to make it somewhat $SAFE dependent, too.

Possible.

|However, what is the issue here, exactly?
|
|Is it that a BigDecimal can have a large exponent for which zeroes
|have to be generated while converting to a Bignum?

Basically.  A huge BigDecimal could occupies large amount of memory,
and consumes a lot of computational time.  It is fundamental, but
bothering sometimes.

							matz.