On Sunday, June 19, 2016 5:51:35 PM CDT Chris Rackauckas wrote: > But as a user, I do find it troubling that the only reliable high-precision > number type is clearly not aiming for performance.
More like "it's hard to make it high performance" because the interaction with the C library means that memory has to be allocated & reclaimed. Presumably if someone sat down and implemented similar operations in pure-julia using, say, tuples, it would blow away what we have now. Naively, it doesn't seem so hard for BigInt; BigFloat could be a different matter entirely. Best, --Tim
