Re: [Chicken-users] update: complex egg

[Peter Keller]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:16:42PM +0200, Thomas Chust wrote:
> > i would dearly like to see chicken have a complete numeric system. is
> > it possible that this complex egg could be used to give chicken native
> > (perhaps optional?) support for complex numbers?
> 
> It would be possible, but for native support of complex numbers I would 
> strongly suggest adding a new primitive data type to CHICKEN and using 
> the C library routines for modification of complex numbers internally, 
> because this would bring a huge performance gain compared to my native 
> Scheme implementation.

I had implemented a 99% binding to the GNU MP library. Maybe that could
be utilized for the full numeric tower implementation in Chicken.

-pete