Re: bignum branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 12:02:34 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean by "our GMP substitute source code".  Do you
> > mean mini-gmp?  I didn't yet look at it, and so I don't know what that
> > means in practice.  (Someone said it's less efficient than GMP?)
> 
> Yes, I meant mini-gmp.

The functions in mini-gmp have the same problem, so I'm unsure why
this solution is better.

> And yes, it'd be less efficient than real GMP, something 
> we'd have to live with on 32-bit-long hosts until GMP gets its act together 
> (which I hope wouldn't take that long). I don't think the efficiency loss 
> would 
> be major, as bignums aren't commonly used.

To, just published a patch that should work with mini-gmp and GMP
alike, so I think we already have a way ahead.