I would like to contribute to the development of Boost.Multiprecision
cpp_bin_float library. Can I work on it? If yes, then how can I start?
Hi Jyotesh,
Paul Bristow, Chris Kormanyos and I have been discussing this off-list. There is a prototype implementation in the sandbox under the multiprecision.cpp_bin_float directory. The current code is pretty much complete, but under-tested. The binary-decimal and decimal-binary conversion routines used are also brain-dead and do not round correctly (I have a mostly working version that does this correctly on my hard drive, but it's not quite ready for commit yet).
Yes. But remember, Jyotesh, John has taken a different direction than my original code in the sandbox. His implementation is in a different directory, and it's likely that we will stick with John's and leave my prototyping to rest.
So one of the things we need is for folks to try this out and see what breaks (or rather to see what they can break!).
Such as try some simple math functions or to use it in conjunction with boost::math::constants for, say, computing a few hundred digits of pi or log(2).
Some of the std lib function test cases in the sandbox also fail currently as their error rates are too high. Many are also much slower than say MPFR. Chris, would have a better idea which most need working on.
Always important are square root, sine, cosine, and log.
And finally, the implementation uses all integral arithmetic internally (via cpp_int), so one big improvement we need is for someone to write Karatsuba and FFT based multiplication routines for cpp_int (Karatsuba is probably the higher priority). Oh and we have no docs yet.
Yes, very important, as this is a huge limitation of cpp_dec_float --- at least for the digit hunters among us. :-)
Anything there look like something you'd like to work on? Thanks for the interest, John.
Thanks for the interest. Sincerely, Chris.