Per Bothner wrote:
Dalibor Topic wrote:
Indeed. What I want though, is to see the GMP-based math code enter
GNU Classpath, so that it gets maintained collaboratively, and becomes
a shared feature among all the different GNU Classpath based VMs,
rather than something only Kaffe is good at.
GMP-based math code *is* in ClassPath. The implementation of
java.lang.BigInteger was designed so that it could make use
of GMP's lower "MPN" layer. This is (or at least was when I wrote
it) the lower-lever layer that did the actual computation, without
memory allocation. And this is the layer partly implemented in
assembler.
On a side note, Andrew Hughes has just cleaned up and merged in Raif's
patch, so it would be nice if you & Alan could give Classpath's CVS head
a shot and see if it works for you.
cheers,
dalibor topic
