theirix commented on PR #9453: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9453#issuecomment-4527858655
> > > That's true - it is much less popular than other math libraries. I could suggest that the [bnum crate](https://lib.rs/crates/bnum) is much more widely used and provides the required primitives. If we prefer to avoid a dependency on a smaller crate, it's pretty simple to implement arithmetic manually, as is already done with checked_pow. > > > > > > This would be my preference -- "a little copying vs a little of dependency" > > [youtube.com/clip/UgkxWCEmMJFW0-TvSMzcMEAHZcpt2FsVXP65](https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxWCEmMJFW0-TvSMzcMEAHZcpt2FsVXP65) > > Thank you, that's insightful! I'll update the implementation shortly. @alamb I've switched to the native i256 support without external deps. Could you please re-review? -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
