Re: ada is getting spanked :(

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>]

Martin Krischik wrote:
> 
> I too have looked into implementing the test. I found out that there are 
> several Big_Integer implementations - some a binding - some native.
> 
> Really one would need to implement the test with all of them to find out 
> which is the most effective Big_Integer implementation.

I have implemented the Pi-digits program using Jerome Delcourt's 
Big_Number package

http://www.chez.com/bignumber/info.htm

2500 digits takes about 7 s on my 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 HT/WinXP machine, so 
that would be about 9 s on the comparison machine, putting Ada in the 
vicinity of Python.

I looked at Gautier de Montmollin's package, but there doesn't seem to 
be a way to convert a big-num to an Integer.

Based on the Free Pascal entry, binding to gmp would be much faster.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I soiled my armor, I was so scared."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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