Re: integer test hangs on leopard (darwin9) intel core 2 duo

Ingolf Jandt <i.jandtweb.de> writes:
> I had seen that configure was checking for gmp. But as
it did not
> complain I thought it was optional.

It is technically optional.  For example, see the = method
in
kernel/LargeInt.st: when GMP is available and used for
LargeIntegers,
the primitive (VMpr_LargeInteger_eq, defined in
libgst/prims.def) is
used; otherwise, the old representation is used and compared
using
Smalltalk code.

GMP only serves to accelerate LargeIntegers; obviously, the
effect can
be extreme in certain cases 

> I will report the result of installing gmp.

One thing I am curious about -- is GMP not available by
default on
Darwin/OS X?

-- 
But you know how reluctant paranormal phenomena are to
reveal
themselves when skeptics are present. --Robert Sheaffer, SkI
9/2003


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