I put BigInt back on the project ideas board with a caveat that some approaches aren't viable due to licensing concerns and that successful proposals should include discussion of those concerns. Out of curiosity, do we have a summary of those licensing issues and other concerns for this project? I haven't had the time to dig through archives.
I think a Boost licence (option) bigint that Boost code can just use without causing licensing difficulties would be very useful.
But it needs to be very well documented with lots of tutorials and examples.
If one can switch it to use faster, but possibly license-troublesome underlying engine, so much the better.
Agreed. I actually started toying with something similar 4 years ago (or so), but it never really amounted to anything. Easy to start, hard to finish :) Thanks for bringing unearthing the reference. Fingers crossed for a mentor and a good proposal. I happen to know that Clang has an arbitrary precision int that might be worth looking at for inspiration.
If we're accepting for BigInt, should also solicit a project for arbitrary precision floats? What about a fixed point data structure?
An even bigger can of worms! Let's walk before we try to run ;-)
Indeed... BigInt has only been a project idea for what... 5 years, now? If this summer works out, maybe we can look at some of the CADNA code that Joel referenced. Andrew Sutton andrew.n.sutton@gmail.com