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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-09-23 19:44:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-09-23 19:44:52 +0000 |
| commit | f505be1cb0ea60b3b37a2de5bbddea0b5782ab29 (patch) | |
| tree | 26f7fdc90bd12fe131001096df6659ffc5ac96df | |
| parent | a3fa8036fc3cd02e8efa74b6b61bdf0f5ac97132 (diff) | |
| download | perl-f505be1cb0ea60b3b37a2de5bbddea0b5782ab29.tar.gz | |
M::BI news from Tels.
p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.8/perl@21346
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 3f15832c74..ac745f15ac 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -339,6 +339,19 @@ Unicode::String). =item Math::BigInt +A lot of bugs have been fixed since v1.60, the version included in Perl +v5.8.0. Especially noteworthy are the bug in Calc that caused div and mod to +fail for some large values, and the fixes to the handling of bad inputs. + +Some new features were added, e.g. the broot() method, you can now pass +parameters to config() to change some settings at runtime, and it is now +possible to trap the creation of NaN and infinity. + +As usual, some optimizations took place and made the math overall a tad +faster. In some cases, quite a lot faster, actually. Especially alternative +libraries like Math::BigInt::GMP benefit from this. In addition, a lot of the +quite clunky routines like fsqrt() and flog() are now much much faster. + =item MIME::Base64 =item NEXT |