Re: Nearly finished (re)integrating GMP for bignums.

[Rob Browning]

Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:

> Ideally, the bignum code would use the pluggable source of random bits
> in random.c and the GMP generators would be provided as optional
> plugins for random.c.  Rob, is this possible?

For now, I think I'd like to consider just translating the existing
scm_c_random_bignum to manipulate mpz_t values rather than the old
bignum digits.

If you (or anyone else) is familiar with this function, could you
explain the critical parts?  I can probably figure out how to
translate it eventually by just looking at the code, but that process
would probably go a lot faster if I had an overview.

I'd like to know things like how critical it is that it operate on
16-bit chunks -- what interdependencies does that create, etc.  If
possible, it'll probably be faster and easier to work with larger
chunks when manipulating the mpz_t's.

Thanks

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Rob Browning
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