-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-17618 2012-11-05 22:37:33 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : ocaml-zarith Product : Fedora 18 Version : 1.1 Release : 2.fc18 URL : http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/zarith Summary : OCaml interface to GMP Description : This library implements arithmetic and logical operations over arbitrary-precision integers. The module is simply named "Z". Its interface is similar to that of the Int32, Int64 and Nativeint modules from the OCaml standard library, with some additional functions. See the file z.mlip for documentation. The implementation uses GMP (the GNU Multiple Precision arithmetic library) to compute over big integers. However, small integers are represented as unboxed Caml integers, to save space and improve performance. Big integers are allocated in the Caml heap, bypassing GMP's memory management and achieving better GC behavior than e.g. the MLGMP library. Computations on small integers use a special, faster path (coded in assembly for some platforms and functions) eschewing calls to GMP, while computations on large integers use the low-level MPN functions from GMP. Arbitrary-precision integers can be compared correctly using OCaml's polymorphic comparison operators (=, <, >, etc.). Additional features include: - a module Q for rationals, built on top of Z (see q.mli) - a compatibility layer Big_int_Z that implements the same API as Big_int, but uses Z internally -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This new package implements arithmetic and logical operations over arbitrary-precision integers in OCaml with GMP. A module for rationals is built on top. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #870522 - Review Request: ocaml-zarith - OCaml interface to GMP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870522 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ocaml-zarith' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
