Re: [boost] GSOC BigInt Licensing Issues

Subject: Re: [boost] GSOC BigInt Licensing Issues
From: Felipe Tanus (fotanus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-29 17:06:05

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Stewart, Robert
<Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> [...] Â (That brings rise to comments regarding popularity and vendor attention to such libraries. Â BigInt could become sufficiently popular to gain the necessary attention to become as efficient as GMP, but that will be a long and uphill climb. Â OTOH, if BigInt becomes a standard library, then it will be up to vendors to optimize it, so Boost.BigInt only has to be "good enough," in terms of performance, to reach that status.) [...]

I just would like to reinforce to GSoC applicants and mentors that
creating a BigInt lib from scratch would be a really great project,
but by the time limitations from GSoC a great project may end up in a
great unfinished project. So, if you are going to apply in the BigInt
project idea, please be realistic. It would be a shame to see another
unfinished library (and somewhat abandoned or decentralized) like
Boost.Process in GSoC.

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