[Q] Project: Better performance for LargeIntegers

John Buffington jbuff at pacific.net
Fri Oct 29 23:48:31 UTC 1999


At 01:22 AM 10/30/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear Squeakers,
>
>I have changed my mind a little bit after studying some Squeak sources.
>
>Now I plan to implement LargeInteger primitives (20-39) _without_ changing
>the representation of LargeIntegers by extending the Interpreter arithmetic
>primitives using the CCodeGenerator.
>This avoids some problems dealing with different platforms.
>
>In a later step changing the representation to bigger 'digits' (16,32,..
>bits?) _could_ be interesting.
>
>
>What do you think?
>
>Stephan
>
>P.S.: Is [Q] the right string to get attention from Squeak Central?
>
<grin> with OOPSLA coming up I should think it will take more than a "[Q]"
to get Squeak Central's attention ;^)

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