Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

[email protected] (jerry gay) Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:40:18 -0800
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum
> implementations, or are we intending to roll our own?

we can't rely on external libraries, whether for bignum, unicode, gc,
or anything else. we can detect and use them, however, if they exist.

~jerry