Re: bignums?

From: Matías Giovannini (matias@k-bell.com)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 19:51:28 MET DST


Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:51:28 -0300
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mat=EDas?= Giovannini <matias@k-bell.com>
To: John Skaller <skaller@maxtal.com.au>
Subject: Re: bignums?

John Skaller wrote:

> I need an Ocaml multiple precision arithmetic package.
> I'd like to try using an existing interface if possible,

Why not use Ocaml's own Bigints, or Nats if you need all the speed the
low-level implemetation gives you? You may need to link a special
top-level with libnums.a.

As far as I know, Ocaml's underlying implementation is faster than GMP,
older, stabler and more complete.

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