"Mateusz Rukowicz" <mateusz.rukowicz@vp.pl> wrote in message news:4454DE3E.5000701@vp.pl...
Hi,
I would like to participate in summer of code 2006. I was very surprised that boost doesn't have multi precision arithmetic, and since I'm quite algorithm/C++ concerned, I wish to propose/make it as a SoC project. I'll appreciate any response about that idea, what do you feel about that etc.
At the Berlin C++ committee meeting earlier this month the LWG decided expressed interest in getting a further proposal for infinite precision arithmetic for TR2 based on http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1718.pdf Maarten Kronenburg is now working on putting together a further proposal for the standards committee. I asked him a few days ago if he was interested in submitting his reference implementation to Boost, and he replied that his underlying computational functions are written in X86 assembler. Thus for Boost a portable C++ implementation would be needed, switching over to the assembler version for supported platforms. You might want to email Maarten to see if he would like help with a portable C++ version and with getting a proposal ready for Boost submission. --Beman