[plt-scheme] Bignums in Scheme

======= At 2005-06-22, 15:42:01 karczma wrote: =======
>
>Do you claim that there is really somewhere a Scheme implementation
>based on the modular representation??
>Never heard about.
>We are NOT speaking about theory, this is well known, but about practical
>realisations, with some experience concerning the efficiency. 
>
>As far as I know, the sources bignum.c of MzScheme are based on GMP.
>They implement Karatsuba, but no modular stuff (nor Sch?nhage-Strassen,
>nor other exotics...) 
>
>For practical purposes the modular, "Chines" method has some inconveniences,
>the conversions are clumsy, the (<,>) relations are costly, etc. So, it
>lost somehow a good part of its sex appeal... 
>
>Jerzy Karczmarczuk 

I know that all Scheme implementations are based on GMP or similar. I 
mention modular approach just because the original question from Marco 
Morazan mentions "articles/documents" and "performance studies". It 
seems that he want to do a comprehensive study.

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Chongkai Zhu