MPIR lib

[BCS]

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.

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