Re: [boost] Interest in an arbitrary precision library?

From: Joel Eidsath (jeidsath_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-04 07:39:38

David Abrahams wrote:

>IMO, if you don't want to compete with GMP, you should at least allow
>the library to be built as a wrapper over GMP.
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I was thinking of something that would allow for the user to switch out 
algorithms easily.  Using the GMP as an example implementation of this 
would probably be good. 

It's not quite that I don't want to compete with GMP's speed -- but I 
don't think that a portably designed, pure C++ library is going to be 
able to do it.

Joel Eidsath