On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@cs.tamu.edu> wrote:

>  2. GMP offers low-level mpn_xxx functions that could be used to
>     initialize mpz objects from fixnum values.  That would avoid
>     the unstructured code you are alluding to.  Is that something
>     you would contemplate?
>

I do not plan to switch libraries right now, but I have to think carefully
how to abstract this interface and ensure that it remains compatible with
MPIR -- which is the library Sage uses and which ECL must remain compatible
with.

Juanjo

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