I thought I would post to these lists. I have a nascent implementation of Reed-Solomon encoding using Galois Fields. Computation within the field is governed by polynomial representation and operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide, inverse, exp, log). These operations on polynomials is where the profile says most time is being used. The code can be seen in the SecureSession package in squeaksource's Cryptography repository.
The point of this email is to see if the folks who would know how to represent polynomials and operations in Slang would be interested in working towards this performance effort, whether through discussion of implementation. How would you Slanginize a polynomial and it's operations?
manythanks,
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