MPIR lib

[Don]

BCS wrote:
> Hello bearophile,
> 
>> Steven Schveighoffer:
>>
>>> What's wrong with d2's bigint that Don has written?
>>>
>> MPIR is "not invented here" :-) Moving part of the development of a
>> very tricky part of code full of long asm routines (see their amount
>> of code finely tuned for different CPUs) to someone else that has more
>> resources and dedication is sometimes positive. It frees Don to do
>> something else for D, allows to use potentially less buggy code
>> (because more people use the same lib), and MPIR contains several good
>> numerical algos and numeric types that are missing in Don's bigint.
> 
> If I'm remembering correctly who's who, it reasonably likely that Don 
> had a hand in some of the code one or the other of those libs. Someone 
> around here has contributed to some high performance numerics libs.
> 
I have never contributed to any non-D libs.