Re: [boost] [wave) experiences

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-05 19:34:22

Lucas Galfaso wrote:

> > Are there any plans to add a bignum class to Boost?
> 
> I tried to do this and submitted 2 versions so people could 
> criticize it and always had to fight with people that 
> demanded that the library has to be as fast as the fastest 
> open source implementation (in this case, GMP.) I can not 
> claim that speed, but I implemented a really fast big number 
> library using assembler only on the critical paths on the 
> most CPU demanding instructions. That was not enough for some 
> boost-ers.

Could you point me to this library, please? I'ld like to try to put it into
Wave to support cross compilation and/or configurable precision support.

Regards Hartmut