On 20 March 2010 11:27, Ankit Malpani <ankit.malpani@gmail.com> wrote:
3. i have no prior experience of using Boost libraries, will this prove to be a problem with regard to this project?
Experience with the Boost libraries themselves isn't strictly the issue, but you do need to be comfortable in Boost-style library design, which I haven't seen outside the periphery of Boost. My personal vision of a Boost BigInt project involves both - A policy-based backend for the numeric operations themselves - An expression template frontend, probably based off Boost.Proto There are many C-based BigInt libraries already, so I think Boost is best situated to offer not yet another one, but instead an elegant C++ wrapper to provide easy of use on top of existing efficiency. I can't judge your comfort level with those concepts.