Using GMP for BigIntegers.

[Mark J. Roberts]

I have some problems with the BigInteger support in GCJ.

It's broken, and it's slow. In one test case:

GMP:  14 milliseconds per modPow. // compiled with GCJ using CNI
IBM:  38 milliseconds per modPow.
GCJ: 212 milliseconds per modPow. // wrong result due to bug

So, is GMP in your future? I'm probably going to add GMP support to my
libjava anyway, so I can probably provide a rough implementation to use as
a starting point really soon. If you're interested...


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Mark Roberts
mjr@statesmean.com