[Torbjorn Granlund: GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library]

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It might be interesting to compare the speed of this library with the
speed of the multiprecision code in RSAREF and in PGP.  May the fastest
library win!

	John

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Subject: GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 16:35:35 +0200
From: Torbjorn Granlund <tege at sics.se>

Version 1.3 of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library is now
available for anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu as /pub/gnu/gmp-1.3.tar.z.

The main differences between 1.2 and 1.3 are bug fixes and support for
64-bit machines.  There are also a couple of enhancements that affects the
speed of some operations.  There are no new user-visible functions in this
version.

(There will be a new major version of this library in a not distant future.
That version, 2.0, will contain additions of new functions contributed from
other people.  It also has a documented low-level interface for really
time-critical applications.  I don't know exactly when it will be ready.)

These people (in alphabetical order) helped with testing of this release:

  Per Bothner <bothner at cygnus.com>
  Bruno Haible <haible at ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
  J.W.Hawtin-SE0 at computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk
  Joachim Hollman <joachim at matematik.su.se>
  Phil Howard <pdh at netcom.com>
  Henrik Johansson <Henrik.Johansson at nexus.comm.se>
  AOKI Kazumaro <maro at terada.info.waseda.ac.jp>
  Steve Linton <sl25 at cus.cam.ac.uk>
  Alyson Reeves <reeves at archimedes.cc.brandeis.edu>
  Nils Rennebarth <nils at exp-math.uni-essen.de>
  Joachim Schimpf <Joachim.Schimpf at ecrc.de>
  Ken Weber <kweber at mcs.kent.edu>

Plus possibly somebody whose name I have lost.  Many other people have
contributed bug reports during the 1 1/2 years since the last release.
Thanks everybody!

	Torbjorn Granlund

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