subject:"\[rust\-dev\] Arbitrary\-precision arithmetic"

Re: [rust-dev] Arbitrary-precision arithmetic

2014-09-01 Thread Daniel Micay

On 01/09/14 08:51 AM, Cody Mack wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding issue #8937 (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/8937), > add a BigDecimal type, there is discussion about wrapping GMP, and > even possibly replacing Rust's current BigInt with this wrapper. One > comment mentions that Rust's current

[rust-dev] Arbitrary-precision arithmetic

2014-09-01 Thread Cody Mack

Hi, Regarding issue #8937 (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/8937), add a BigDecimal type, there is discussion about wrapping GMP, and even possibly replacing Rust's current BigInt with this wrapper. One comment mentions that Rust's current BigInt is ~100x slower than GMP in some cases. How