Recently, on the ocaml mailing list, there has been a thread about different Bignum implementation. Michel Quercia, numerix maintainer, stated that numerix is not portable and works only on x86 platform: -- Numerix is my baby, so I'll let other users say if it has merits. Same schemeas GMP (choose a suitable algorithm depending on the sizes of the inputs), without the double-GC problem. The drawback is portability : works on x86/Linux. I haven't tried to use numerix debian package, but I'm a bit puzzled by the fact that numerix package is Architecture: any. So my question to Sylvain, Mike and Medwards (latest changers of the package): have I overlooked something or there is a big problem(TM) with debian numeric debian package? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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