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Subject: Re: C++ interface and mpz_addmul
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 07:57:06 +1000
From: Kevin Ryde <user42(a)zip.com.au>
To: gmp(a)swox.com, ppl-devel(a)cs.unipr.it
CC: Gerardo.Ballabio(a)unimib.it
References: <3D1CD64E.4030508(a)cs.unipr.it>
Roberto Bagnara <bagnara(a)cs.unipr.it> writes:
>
> it seems that C++ statements of the form
>
> a += b*c
>
> for a, b and c of type mpz_class, are not translated
> by the C++ interface into an invocation of mpz_addmul.
Alas you're right. mpz_addmul is only used for "mpq += mpz" at the
moment. (Hmm. Should use mpz_addmul_ui for "mpq += ulong" too I
guess.)
> The reason I am asking is twofold: on the one hand, expressions
> like that are quite common in several applications and they usually
> occur in critical computation paths (e.g., applications computing
> zillions of scalar products);
You can call mpz_addmul directly with mpz_class::get_mpz_t if you
want. Not terribly pretty, but it'll work right now.
> on the other hand, the template machinery
> used to implement the C++ interface of GMP would seem powerful enough
> to do the right thing.
I wonder if the templating can cope with two operators like that.
> Am I missing something?
> If not, are there any plans to enhance the C++ interface so as to
> capture this case?
Gerardo?
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