Hi there, <snip>
> Currently, there exist much better solutions than BigDecimal, > unfortunately not from the Java space. For instance GMP > ( http://gmplib.org/) is considered as one of the state of the art > libraries in the area of precision arithmetics. And several libraries > extent GMP such as the popular iRRAM project > (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/iRRAM/). > > Check out the following page in order to get an idea how performable > GMP is: http://gmplib.org/pi-with-gmp.html > > it demonstrates the calculation of pi with many digits. > > > I´m asking myself why there is nothing comparable for the java > platfom. Have you tried: http://www.apfloat.org/ Not everything has to be in the core platform IMO (I think it's already much too bloated). Or maybe it could be considered to write a JNI-Layer on top of GMP? Cheers, Roman -- http://kennke.org/blog/
