MPIR lib

[BCS]

Hello 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.
> 

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#CountBitsSetParallel

Close enought for my point, (unless the Don referenced there isn't you).

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