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Re: Big/Arbitrary integers
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Re: Big/Arbitrary integers


  • Subject: Re: Big/Arbitrary integers
  • From: Shon Frazier <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:01:48 -0500

Thanks for everyone's input. My project is number theory related (with a dash of crypto). I'll go with OpenSSL since it's included in the OS X distribution. I was kinda hoping for something a little more Objective C-ish, but OpenSSL will do just fine...

Thanks again,
--Shon


On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

On 1/24/06, Shawn Erickson <email@hidden> wrote:
On 1/23/06, Greg Herlihy <email@hidden> wrote:

For a "native" implementation of a big integer library (that is one that
ships on every Mac), I would look at openssl's Big Number library whose
interface is found in <openssl/bn.h> and whose documentation can be found in
the "bn" man page and whose source can even be downloaded from the
openssl.org web site.

I would also consider using the vBigNum library that is part of the
Accelerate framework (housed as part of vecLib)... not knowing exactly
what is wanted.


<file:///System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Frameworks/ vecLib.framework/Headers/vBigNum.h>

I should point out that vBigNum supports sign or unsigned integers that are 256, 512, or 1024 bits in width and is available on Mac OS X since 10.0. It uses vector operations if the CPU supports it otherwise it falls back on an CPU optimized scalar implementation. Apple has/is porting it to use SSE on Intel as well.

-Shawn
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 >Re: Big/Arbitrary integers (From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Big/Arbitrary integers (From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>)

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