Hi Timothy,
As Leszek points out, I have some plans for faster BigInt algorithms in V8,
and some standalone code that I haven't spent the time yet to land
upstream. An important contribution you could make to that project
(especially in order to accelerate it) would be to describe a use case
where this matters -- we like to spend our time (and binary size) on things
that users care about, and so far we haven't heard about anyone needing to
multiply/divide BigInts with several thousand bits. Do you have a specific
scenario in mind that would benefit from this, or are you viewing this
mostly from a theoretical perspective ("because we *could*")?
That said, of course I wouldn't want to discourage you from contributing
code to V8! Are there any other areas you might be interested in?
Cheers,
Jakob
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 9:05 AM Leszek Swirski <[email protected]> wrote:
> +Jakob Kummerow <[email protected]>, who has some work on BigInt.
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:37 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On the v8.dev website, it says to come here for guidance on how to
>> contribute to V8. I'm particularly interested in optimizing the BigInt
>> routines, since they currently seem to just use the naive algorithms.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Timothy
>>
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