15 lines
787 B
Plaintext
15 lines
787 B
Plaintext
GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on
|
|
signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. It has a
|
|
rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface.
|
|
|
|
GNU MP is designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands and
|
|
for huge operands. The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic
|
|
arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, by carefully optimized assembly
|
|
code for the most common inner loops for a lots of CPUs, and by a general
|
|
emphasis on speed (instead of simplicity or elegance).
|
|
|
|
The speed of GNU MP is believed to be faster than any other similar
|
|
library. The advantage for GNU MP increases with the operand sizes for
|
|
certain operations, since GNU MP in many cases has asymptotically faster
|
|
algorithms.
|