From b50c8c897cdbd23dee38c0c42010811cc0f156b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Antoine=20Min=C3=A9?= Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:33:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] minor README update --- README.md | 21 ++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index eafee4b..782b591 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ However, small integers are represented as unboxed Caml integers, to save space and improve performance. Big integers are allocated in the Caml heap, bypassing GMP's memory management and achieving better GC behavior than e.g. the MLGMP library. -Computations on small integers use a special, faster path (coded in assembly -for some platforms and functions) eschewing calls to GMP, while computations -on large intergers use the low-level MPN functions from GMP. +Computations on small integers use a special, faster path (in C or OCaml) +eschewing calls to GMP, while computations on large intergers use the +low-level MPN functions from GMP. Arbitrary-precision integers can be compared correctly using OCaml's polymorphic comparison operators (`=`, `<`, `>`, etc.). @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ See LICENSE file for details. ## AUTHORS -* Antoine Miné, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, formerly ENS Paris. +* Antoine Miné, Sorbonne Université, formerly at ENS Paris. * Xavier Leroy, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt. * Pascal Cuoq, TrustInSoft. * Christophe Troestler (toplevel module) @@ -115,17 +115,12 @@ INRIA Rocquencourt (Institut national de recherche en informatique, France). Source files | Description --------------------|----------------------------------------- configure | configuration script - caml_z.c | C implementation of all functions - caml_z_*.S | asm implementation for a few functions - z_pp.pl | script to generate z.ml[i] from z.ml[i]p - z.ml[i]p | templates used to generate z.ml[i]p + z.ml[i] | Z module and implementation for small integers + caml_z.c | C implementation big_int_z.ml[i] | wrapper to provide a Big_int compatible API to Z q.ml[i] | rational library, pure OCaml on top of Z zarith_top.ml | toplevel module to provide pretty-printing projet.mak | builds Z, Q and the tests + zarith.opam | package description for opam + z_mlgmpidl.ml[i] | conversion between Zarith and MLGMPIDL tests/ | simple regression tests and benchmarks - -Note: `z_pp.pl` simply scans the asm file (if any) to see which functions have -an asm implementation. It then fixes the external statements in .mlp and -.mlip accordingly. -The argument to `z_pp.pl` is the suffix `*` of the `caml_z_*.S` to use (guessed by configure).