GMP++ When we have pluggable types it would be cool to have arbitrary precision stuff.
/David On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 11:44 -0700, Brian Aker wrote: > Hi! > > I'm working through some reference checking right now, and decided to > look at decimal. Just for those playing along at home, up until 5.0 > MySQL just stored DECIMAL as a string, mostly, and did all operations > on it through normal mathematical operations. Starting in 5.0 we > switched to a library and internal developer wrote which should mimic > the SQL standard (and if you read the header in the subject you can > find out some of the absurd bits it is doing). > > Would anyone care if we dropped this in favor of just using one of the > GNU based arbitrary libraries in the future? GMP perhaps (though it is > not quite the same)? I'm a minimalist when it comes to built in types > so I tend to favor this approach, but I would like to hear from others > as well. > > Cheers, > -Brian > > BTW any thoughts on long double over our current use of double? It > looks like it would be a mess. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
