Re: [Chicken-users] performance of bignums

[Kooda]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 09:47:30PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> So far it seems my implementation of Burnikel/Ziegler division is rather
> unstable, performance-wise.  If I disable burnikel/ziegler so it falls
> back to the traditional gradebook method, the benchmark finishes in
> a quarter of the time it takes to run with BZ enabled.
> 
> It's not just that the BZ implementation is really bad: it does improve
> performance on Chudnovsky's "digits of pi" calculation benchmark by a
> factor of four or so.  I will do further experimentation.  I also noticed
> a bug in the gradebook method, which I will have to address as well.
> 

Thanks a lot for putting so much effort in this!

If you need anything please do not hesitate to ask, I’m really excited
about that feature in CHICKEN 5 (and surely I’m not alone). :)

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