At 1:10 PM +0200 3/13/02, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>Fine, let me ask this: why we're doing it ourselves instead of using gmp?
gmp's license-incompatible with perl and parrot.
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Dan
Subject: Re: Re-inventing the wheel
[was RE: Why not gmp? [was Re: pdd14 -- bignums] ]
03/13/2002 06:26
[Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +0200: Shlomi Fish]
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Brent Dax wrote:
>
> > *After* you've answered those three questions, proceed to ask why we're
> > doing it ourselves instead.
> >
>
> Fine, let me ask this: why we're doing it ourselves instead of using gmp?
>From
Shlomi Fish:
> Fine, let me ask this: why we're doing it ourselves instead of using gmp?
If you'd think about the answers to Brent's questions, you'd know.
Simon
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Brent Dax wrote:
> Shlomi Fish:
> # Question: why can't we link against GNU's GMP to provide us
> # with those big
> # number facilities? Is there any reason we need to re-invent the wheel?
> # (except to make Parrot self-contained and non dependent on
> # anything else,
> #
Brent Dax:
> When asking why we don't use external tool or library X, first answer
> three questions:
Perfect. I think this should go in the FAQ.
Simon
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Shlomi Fish:
# Question: why can't we link against GNU's GMP to provide us
# with those big
# number facilities? Is there any reason we need to re-invent the wheel?
# (except to make Parrot self-contained and non dependent on
# anything else,
# which, IMO, is not a very good cause)
When asking wh
Question: why can't we link against GNU's GMP to provide us with those big
number facilities? Is there any reason we need to re-invent the wheel?
(except to make Parrot self-contained and non dependent on anything else,
which, IMO, is not a very good cause)
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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I've pretty much finished this off, although I need to edit it to make
complete sense, but am busy so this might not happen right this minute
now.
Oh, and I've stolen number 14, so as what I can put it into cvs.
Enjoy...
Alex Gough
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Once people ceased to understand how the machines around th
