Hello Simon, Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 4:05:51 PM, you wrote:
(2) We're concerned about performance. Replacing GMP, but losing substantial performance on bignum-intensive programs would be unattractive.
don't forget about speed/memory efficiency of any programs that use Integer "just for case" but really most of their numbers fit in 32/64 bits. i have one particular program of this type - it builds list of all files on disk and Integers are used to save filesizes. i will be glad if, vice versa, memory requirements for small integers will be reduced to the same as for Ints
the same binary that also wants to use GMP. (Of course, we could *copy* GMP, changing all the function names. That would eliminate the problem!)
isn't it rather easy task for some automated tool? i think that even existing tools may be found -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com