On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 13:54 -0800, Monty Taylor wrote: > Brian Aker wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Feb 8, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Antony T Curtis wrote: > > > >> That was why I was surprised that an existing 'big integer' library > >> wasn't used when my_decimal first hit the tree. > > > > There was at the time a big NIH going on around this. > > > > Do you have a suggestion for a better one? I'd love to see someone go > > through and replace this code and have us shift to sometime that makes > > sense. > > How about GMP? It's apparently fast, and it's LGPL, and if we use it > there are some other things we can use it for too.
BTW: I tried to get GMP into MySQL when we where adding larger numbers since I know the author. I did try to hire him for 5+ years into MySQL but it failed last year since JP did not get back to him (I did manage to hire a friend of his who came with him to the first interview: Kent Bortz). So if you need any help with GMP I can connect you to Torbjörn. /David _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
