On 15 February 2010 04:45, Kamil Witecki <kamil.witecki@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to propose new library for boost - a Big Integer library.
Is it a good proposal for GSoC project and who would you recommend as a possible mentor for such project?
Given the number of times which a big integer library has been started, I'd be wary of suggesting it as a GSoC project. Since there are already many C big integer libraries (with various licenses), I'd be far more interested in an expression template system that would let me hook in the operations I need. That way if I'm ok with LGPL I can just use GMP, for instance. Also, a naive implementation could be provided for testing and verification. I remember hearing that someone had started something like that, but I don't know its progress. ~ Scott