Purely out of curiousity: is this new parser libgmp?  If not, have you
considered using libgmp?  Hell, I don't even know what libgmp "really
does", other than act as some IEEE-oriented math library... ;-)

Food for thought.  And I hate math, by the way.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.                             |

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:00:07AM -0500, Jeremy Nelson wrote:
> The new math parser was first written about 7 years ago and hasn't had
> any significant changes for 2 years, despite rather signficant use by
> several scripts.  So it's stable.
> 
> It hasn't been turned on by default because it's not backwards compatable
> (natch), and some people have depended upon the bugs in the old math 
> parser.  However, it has always been expected we would flip the two, and
> the new math parser would be the default and you'd have to /xdebug old_math
> to get the old math parser.
> 
> It seems that this might be the time to do this change-over.  This means
> that going forward, epic5 scripts need to be new_math compatable.
> 
> Does anyone have any comments they'd like to make about this before it 
> happens?
> 
> Jeremy
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