Ion Alexandru Morega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would certainly work that way, but there are advantages in including > the source code: > - We could trim down all the functionality we don't use (if there is > any)
No. Please not another library (like ICU), which we have to update in our tree as well. I'd like to just link against it, *if* the library is selected with Configure. > - At first glange, GMP seems to handle its own memory allocation. It > would be much better if we did that ourselves. The memory allocation is overridable at runtime. > - GMP's compilation process is aware of the machine's hardware, > making optimisations accordingly. It should be compiled along with > parrot, for better performance. GMP *is* already heavily optimized to take advantage of architecture features. > alexm leo
