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@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ Known bugs:
exceeds the hardware limit (2^30 for a 32 bits CPU, and 2^62 for a 64 bits
CPU).
+* mpfr_div is slow when the precision of the divisor is small compared
+ to the precision of the target. For q = rnd(u / v), in the case where
+ vprec <= qprec, an integer division with (about) qprec + vprec bits
+ for the dividend and the full divisor (i.e. vprec bits exactly) could
+ be used. This was the case in the past and was changed (due to a full
+ rewrite) on 2004-12-24 in rev 3161.
+
Potential bugs:
* Possible integer overflows on some machines.