Re: Supporting object types in BCMath

On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 8:39 AM Saki Takamachi <saki@sakiot.com> wrote: > Hi Barney, > > Thanks, that's what I was starting to worry about too. It seems like a > good idea to support only immutability, as you say earlier in your proposal. > > Regards. > > Saki Using a BCNum inside a loop is the use case, where every loop would result in memory allocation for a new object, as well as the overhead of the constructor, etc. Granted, only people who REALLY know what they are doing should be doing this. Though my library which essentially IS a wrapped for BCMath that is upgradeable if you install other extensions (like ext-decimal) does support both, I suggest using primarily immutables in my docs. That said, the C library itself for BCMath is insanely inefficient as far as arbitrary precision math goes, so I would suggest that people don't get their hopes up too much on the performance front. Jordan