Re: [RFC] OpenSSL BigNum support

On Tue, 18 Oct 2016, at 09:22 AM, Nikita Popov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > > > As it says on the tin: Wrap the BN (BigNumber) library in OpenSSL. Why do we need GMP when we have BCMath? GMP is faster (from what I've seen so far from various tests and blog posts) – whilst they do similar ops, they are chosen for specific reasons, all this does is expose the existing interfaces for arbitrary precision arithmetic made available with the OpenSSL layer, and I think anyone implementing them would want the API there, it requires minimal maintenance. Sara, I think the best route is too match the method names within OpenSSL, it will avoid some initial confusion, unless people want to change libraries, but I think that is probably less likely. DM