Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] BitSet

[Brian H. <bh...@sp...>]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

> GMP is C, ExtLib is OCaml
> If you want to provide a 3rd party library having very efficient bitsets and
> big ints based on GMP, then I think it's nice idea. But since we agreed in
> the beginning that ExtLib will not have C parts (since with that comes a lot
> of compability, compilation, and installation problems) then I can't see
> that being put into ExtLib. Current bitsets are useful and enough efficient
> for the average user.
> 

A point I had forgotten- my apologies.

Also, thinking on it for a bit, gmp has development problems on Windows- 
I'm unsure of how well it plays with Microsoft's compiler.

You're right- it belongs in it's own optional library.

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