Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:03:21 -0700 From: norton@nrlmry.navy.mil To: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64bit support? Message-ID: <199606132003.NAA26558@norton> In-Reply-To: <mDD96AA56@longacre.demon.co.uk> (message from Michael Searle on Thu, 13 Jun 1996 12:18:14 BST)
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Perhaps the gmp package at athena-dist.mit.edu is something you might be interested in looking at. I've never used it, but it appears to be an arbitrary precision math library. I missed the beginning of the thread and am not sure if you are interested in high precision math, or something else. Attached is part of the README. -dave THE GNU MP LIBRARY GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. It has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface. GNU MP is designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands and for huge operands. The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, by carefully optimized assembly code for the most common inner loops for a lots of CPUs, and by a general emphasis on speed (instead of simplicity or elegance). The speed of GNU MP is believed to be faster than any other similar library. The advantage for GNU MP increases with the operand sizes for certain operations, since GNU MP in many cases has asymptotically faster algorithms.
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