Re: Extension: arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic in PHP 7
| From: | Rudi Theunissen | Date: | Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:46:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Extension: arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic in PHP 7 | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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Actually yes! You mentioned it to me 5 months ago in a thread on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/8fpwi4/if_php_had_a_native_decimal_type_would_you_use_it/dy6zon9/
I'll take a close look at GMPi today and compare them objectively. :)
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 7:20 AM Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:06 PM Rudi Theunissen <rtheunissen@php.net>
> wrote:
> > I've been working on adding arbitrary precision decimal support as an
> > alternative to *bcmath. *I have created an extension based on
> *mpdecimal*,
> > which is what Python 3's decimal module is also based on. I haven't
> > released or broadcast this project yet, because I wanted to discuss the
> API
> > and implementation with internals first.
> >
> Have you looked at GMPi ? https://github.com/sgolemon/gmpi
> It's a replacement for GMP (which includes floating point and an OOP
> interface).
>
> -Sara
>