Re: [boost] [wave) experiences

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-06 22:12:12

Joel de Guzman wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> IMO, you do not need an arbitrary precision integer. All you
> need is a fixed precision integer (64, 128 or 256 bits). That
> is a lot faster to operate on. There are lots of such libraries
> and it's easy to write one. Surely, you do not need to compute
> things like PI to a million decimal places ;-)

Do you have something particular in mind?

Regards Hartmut