Re: [boost] Arbitrary Magnitude Integer Library in sandbox and filesection

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-05 11:36:07

From: "Ronald Garcia" <garcia_at_[hidden]>

> This is just to inform you that I have added an arbitrary magnitude
> integer library, named bigint, to the boost sandbox ( docs in
> boost/libs/bigint/index.html ) and to the boost file section  (
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/bigint.zip ).  My primary
> focus was developing the interface, so the implementation is not
> optimized for performance at this time.  Quick example from the docs:

Yay!

I suggest you take a look at the implementation in the Python source
distribution (src/Objects/longobject.c). It contains useful optimizations
and refinements, and can easily be adapted to C++.

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