[perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

[Will Coleda]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, chromatic <chromatic at wgz.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote:
>
>> we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or
>> another external library at configure time.
>
> That sounds like a fantastic recipe for hard-to-debug configuration problems
> and all of the joys of fixing copious amounts of bugs we don't even know
> about.
>
> We're pretty decent at writing VMs and compiler tools and languages.  If we
> were also good at writing transcendental and arbirtrary precision math
> libraries, we'd probably already have written one.
>
> -- c

My 2 cents: it's ok to rely on external libraries. If they don't exist
on our core platforms, we could do something crazy like help port
them.

We do not need to reinvent every wheel. We're already reinventing
several as it stands.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda