On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 19:36:47 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz> [2005-05-27 17:50]:Shouldn't it really be done in Glib? Glib provides the gint64 and guint64 types and I assume GStreamer just uses them. So it should be the Glib typemap that maps them to appropriate Math::BigInt types.Are you referring to my paragraph about bigint/bignum? That would be superfluous if GStreamer had Glib typemap, I suppose. And using Math::BigInt::Lite would be harder (not possible?).
I probably misunderstood the issue in question. I supposed the large numbers are handled correctly by the bindings, but now I see the issue is, that the constants are not writable in perl, but if they were written properly as Math::BigInt, they would be properly passed to the C level.
But at least the first paragraph still applies: anyone wanting to do any amount of math on those values will want an XS-based core library for Math::BigInt (::FastCalc, ::GMP, ::Pari) instead of the default ::Calc that is pure-Perl.
Sure. Pure-perl implementation of Math::BigInt is damn slow.
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