From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA07472; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:14:15 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA07270 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:14:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9AHE7500582; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:14:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA07335; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:14:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Pierre Weis Message-Id: <200210101714.TAA07335@pauillac.inria.fr> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Num library In-Reply-To: <23100.209.9.234.140.1034261810.squirrel@dragonfly.localdomain> from "Yaron M. Minsky" at "Oct 10, 102 10:56:50 am" To: yminsky@CS.Cornell.EDU (Yaron M. Minsky) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:14:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > Num is by all accounts a pretty mediocre bignum implementation. There's > also mlgmp, which is an interface to GMP. I haven't used it, but GMP is > fast. There's also Numerix, which I have used. Numerix at least at one > point was a good deal faster than GMP in many cases, and is very easy to > use. I'm not sure how GMP and Numerix compare in terms of speed these > days, since GMP has seen more development and Numerix has not. > y I'm afraid this is a bit rough, not a fair scientific study. Once more, just one question to you: which layer of the Num library had you benchmarked ? Pierre Weis INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners