Re: Multiprecisions numbers

[DELCOURT J�r�me <sikander@club-internet.fr>]

Gautier wrote:
> 
> Pascal Obry:
> 
> > Do you have some benchmarks about the relative speed of these
> > implementations ?
> 
> This would be very interesting (not time and equipment myself now)
> E.g. GMP and other known packages, being in C, must allocate, reallocate,
> deallocate memory for multi-integer. It consume time and the memory
> gets fragmented very fast, requiring garbage collection that can take
> longer than the computing itself. Reversely, pure Ada methods where functions
> can return a whole unconstrained array, can work only on stack with
> local variables. Anyway, using the "procedure with out parameter" variants
> give very quick results on OpenVMS (Compaq Ada V3.5-2) and PC (GNAT/DOS).
> No comparisons though from my side.
> 
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You can find packages in ada about multiprecision numbers at
http://www.chez.com/bignumber/index.html.


Jerome Delcourt