Yet another Math Library
Robert Spier
This might be useful... (thanks planetlisp!)
Chris Double
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Wed Jun 30 17:22:09 2004
http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2004/07/01.html#a625
I came across a free portable arbitary precision integer and rational
arithmentic library called [1]IMath that looks useful. It is under a
BSD style license and it looks like it might be useful for
implementing bignum support in languages. It may be a useful
alternative to [2]GNU MP if the latters licensing is not compatible
with your project.
References
1. http://thayer.dartmouth.edu/~sting/sw/imath
2. http://swox.com/gmp/
Leopold Toetsch
> This might be useful... (thanks planetlisp!)
> I came across a free portable arbitary precision integer and rational
> arithmentic library called [1]IMath that looks useful. It is under a
> BSD style license and it looks like it might be useful for
> implementing bignum support in languages. It may be a useful
> alternative to [2]GNU MP if the latters licensing is not compatible
> with your project.
Yep. Seems reasonably documented and tested. *And* the interface is very
similar to GMP, so that the library might be well usable as a fallback
or alternative, if we can't or don't use GMP.
I think its way to early to decide, which of the libs we might finally
use, but one major issue of including such a library is testing. The
stuff in CVS - F<types/bignum*> - has a link to download a huge test
suite from IBM somewhere. So we might try to adjust these tests anyway.
Thanks for the links,
leo