[Scilab-Dev] GMP/MPFR and scilab.

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello Jonathan,

First, yes, don't waste anytime trying to do it yourself. For two
reasons, it is just too hard and especially because we are starting to
work on a new core of Scilab.
This kind of things are going to be much easier!

Sylvestre


Le samedi 13 septembre 2008 à 14:03 -0300, Jonathan Blanchard a écrit :
> How would one add a type in scilab anyways? I peeked at the source
> code but the core module is not that well commented(no offense).
> 
> Jonathan Blanchard
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Collette Yann <ycollet at freesurf.fr> wrote:
> > Jonathan Blanchard a écrit :
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I see that one of the scilab development ideas is adding GMP/MPFR
> >> support in scilab. Is there currently any activities on this project?
> >>
> >> Jonathan Blanchard
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Not yet. A Matlab toolbox exists which should be relatively easy to port to
> > scilab.
> > But a presentation of the wiki page shows that the approach used in the
> > matlab toolbox (store the results in strings) is slow and another approach
> > can be used (defined a special scilab type).
> > This approach seems a little bit hard for me. But the first one is easy. I
> > am currently on another task, so I will not wok on this one.
> >
> > Yann
> >