Semantics of toString

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 08:40:00 PST 2009


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:04 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter:
>
>> Though they may be useful, those don't look to have anything to do
>> with formatting user types into strings, which is the subject at hand.
>
> Don has said: "But the performance would still be very poor, and that's much more difficult to solve." And those links show a way to quickly convert a large multi-precision integer into a string. What is that I am missing?

Maybe it's just my ignorance of BigNum issues, but those links look to
me to be about divsion and not generating string representations.  Are
those somehow synonymous in BigInt land?

--bb



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