Re: Extension: arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic in PHP 7

Just for the record, I've written a userland arbitrary precision arithmetic library, that provides a BigDecimal class which should be pretty similar to what you're aiming to do: https://github.com/brick/math This library uses the existing GMP or BCMath extensions when available, but also works without them, using a (slower, but fully functional) pure PHP implementation. A new PHP extension that would provide native arbitrary precision numbers with an OO API would be welcome, IMO. Maybe brick/math can help inspire your API? Benjamin > Le 29 sept. 2018 à 01:05, Rudi Theunissen <rtheunissen@php.net> a écrit : > > Hi everyone, > > 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. > > See: https://github.com/php-decimal/php-decimal > > Any advice, commentary or objection is welcome. :) > > Thank you, > Rudi Theunissen > > --0000000000001ef4ff0576f68080-- >