On 2 April 2010 04:21, Ankit Malpani <ankit.malpani@gmail.com> wrote:
b) use a backend developed by me .(probably with the help non boost.math but standard c++ libraries)
Personally, I don't think that re-implementing well-known algorithms for big integers is really what Boost is best suited for. There are plenty of implementations already out there, under a variety of licenses, so I figure that most people should be able to find something they can use and plug into a nice "Boosty" interface. Looking at the overall Boost aim "to establish 'existing practice' and provide reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization," I suspect that the thing eventually standardized would be the interface -- function names, exception behaviour, possibly some expression template properties, etc -- not the details of how, say, division is performed. YMMV, ~ Scott