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Re: [Help-gsl] GSL and MPFR
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Allin Cottrell |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-gsl] GSL and MPFR |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:47:46 -0500 (EST) |
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Brian Gough wrote:
> At Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:45:41 +0100,
> Paul Zimmermann wrote:
> > why do you think it would be a major rewrite? What I had in mind was an
> > optional option of configure, say --with-mpfr=..., for users who prefer
> > accuracy and portability to speed.
>
> Can you give me an example of how that would work? I was assuming
> that using the mpfr_t type was a signicant change from using doubles.
Brian is right. It's all very well putting "--with-mpfr" into the
configure script, the trick is actually doing something in
response! That requires working with the mpfr_t type, not
regular C doubles. Every piece of arithmetic has to be
re-written; you can't use the ordinary C math operators with
mpfr_t, nor any ordinary C math functions.
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University