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Re: [Chicken-users] update: complex egg
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Peter Keller |
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Re: [Chicken-users] update: complex egg |
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Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:03:24 -0500 |
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:16:42PM +0200, Thomas Chust wrote:
> > i would dearly like to see chicken have a complete numeric system. is
> > it possible that this complex egg could be used to give chicken native
> > (perhaps optional?) support for complex numbers?
>
> It would be possible, but for native support of complex numbers I would
> strongly suggest adding a new primitive data type to CHICKEN and using
> the C library routines for modification of complex numbers internally,
> because this would bring a huge performance gain compared to my native
> Scheme implementation.
I had implemented a 99% binding to the GNU MP library. Maybe that could
be utilized for the full numeric tower implementation in Chicken.
-pete
- [Chicken-users] update: complex egg, Thomas Chust, 2004/10/06
- Re: [Chicken-users] update: complex egg, Felix Winkelmann, 2004/10/11
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- Re: [Chicken-users] update: complex egg, problems with SRFI-10 implementation, Thomas Chust, 2004/10/13
- Re: [Chicken-users] update: complex egg, problems with SRFI-10 implementation, felix winkelmann, 2004/10/14
- Re: [Chicken-users] problems with SRFI-10 implementation, Thomas Chust, 2004/10/15
- Re: [Chicken-users] problems with SRFI-10 implementation, felix winkelmann, 2004/10/18