From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thamer Al-Harbash Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Low level things in C or Scheme [was Stupid module and pregexp questions] Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:27:05 -0400 (EDT) Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030428175342.GA15667@www> <9c0db84ca1f62a523f9acef422573520@bouncing.localnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051709523 24328 80.91.224.249 (30 Apr 2003 13:32:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 30 15:32:01 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Arfl-0006FA-00 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:30:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Arc6-0003Q5-01 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Arbk-0003Ph-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Arbi-0003PJ-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:26:47 -0400 Original-Received: from helena.whitefang.com ([216.254.175.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Arbi-0003PE-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 1428 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2003 13:27:06 -0000 Original-Received: from helena.whitefang.com (216.254.175.50) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Apr 2003 13:27:06 -0000 X-X-Sender: shadows@helena.whitefang.com Original-To: Robert Uhl In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:1885 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:1885 On Wed, 29 Apr 2003, Robert Uhl wrote: > No offense to any of the developers, but guile has more of a numerical > ash-heap than a numerical tower. I tried to fix it parts of it > (particularly, number->string's ridiculous insistence on base-10 for > fractions), Aah. My calculations are fairly simple. I just need to keep track of bandwidth on some high speed links. Thus as long as I can add up to enormous numbers in scheme and do some very basic divisions it works. Thanks for the heads up though. AFAIK, guile -current is using GMP which will resolve this issue? -- Thamer Al-Harbash http://www.whitefang.com/ (if (> pressure too-much-pressure) 'flame 'work) _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user