Hello, I have finally found time to make a separate package of the new nat/bignum implementation, and uploaded it today, but as always, it will be in the NEW queue for some time.
The package is called ocaml-nums (after the dllnums.so name), and produces two packages called libnums-ocaml and libnums-ocaml-dev. One thing important to notice to everyone that will build packages dependent on this, is that i ask you to use these not directly as dependencies, but use : libnums-ocaml | ocaml-base (>= 3.08) libnums-ocaml-dev | ocaml (>= 3.08) Since ocaml 3.08 will see the dissaparition of this package, and its reintegration into the ocaml package, and i don't want to be saddled with a provide forever. Ok, the packages needs ocaml 3.07.2a-2 to build (uploaded, so should be ready tomorrow in the archive) which provide the config/Makefile, and the needed variables in it to build both the old and the new nat/bignums library. Alternatively, the package can be found also in : deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/ocaml . or directly from http://people.debian.org/~luther/ocaml. And naturally all of this is already in the subversion repository on alioth. you will find it in packages/ocaml/ocaml-nums. If i have time (or someone else feels like it), i will also provide the non-free version as a separate package providing libnums-ocaml, but i am not entirely sure it can go into non-free even. It would be nice for comparisons though between the old and the new code. The new code should be 50% faster on SSE2 enabled CPUs and on powerpc ones (not sure if only altivec supporting or not). I am sure that if someone feels like it, other vector engines support could be added for other kind of cpus. Friendly, Sven Luther
