Re: CLN instead of mpwrap

[Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, George wrote:

> I'm investigating how to replace mpwrap and a lot of the genius routines with
> CLN.  So perhaps you may see some genius breakage in the coming days because
> of this.  This may actually speed up the process of the new interface as it
> will take care of modularizing a large part of the engine.  It also seems
> like cln will be quite a bit faster then mpwrap which eats cache for
> breakfast.

Is this something that we would be using instead of GMP? I like the
OOPness of it :)

> The only thing is that I can't find rpms for this beast.  The homepage is at
> http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-cln.html

Shouldn't be needed. I would hate to have yet another dependencey for
dr-genius, especially one of which no rpm's are available. Unfortunately,
it looks very large, perhaps too large to include in the source tree.

I would advise making dr-genius so it will compile out of the box on a
kitchen-sink redhat install. reqiring users to download and install
prerequisite packages is a major burden on the users.

> Lemme know what you think about this.  It should definately improve
> precision, speed and features of dr genius.  And I think it will be simpler
> then trying to make mpwrap work nicely.  Also it offloads the burden of
> maintaining some of the math stuff from genius which means more time for
> other stuff.

> (And yes aaron it does have fast low precision floats for you:)

Sounds nice :)

> George
>