Hello Parrot people!
I've been thinking about making GMP bindings for Parrot. Here's the
task on the wiki:
GNU Multi-Precision Library (GMP) bindings for Parrot ΒΆ
* Difficulty: < 3 / 5>
* Links of Interest: http://gmplib.org/
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-GMPz/
* Possible Mentors: dukeleto
* Details: Porting Math::GMPz (integer functions) to Parrot. This
will allow many cryptography and number theory libraries to be written
on top of this. Parrot currently knows how to detect GMP and uses a
small subset of GMP functions for BigInts and BigFloats, but more
functions are needed to implement libraries on top of it.
* Expected Deliverables: Pure PIR PMCs that wrap NCI calls to GMP,
tests, documentation
I think a major benefit would be that any HLL would get "free"
BigNumber / BigRational / BigDecimal types. It is also a stepping
stone for more complex math and cryptographic libraries. I'd
appreciate any feedback about this project. I'm bubaflub on IRC and
you can email me directly.
Thanks,
Bob
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