Revision history for Perl extension Math::BigInt::FastCalc.

2008-04-15 0.19 Tels (6892 tests)
  * forcefully regenerate META.yml (sigh@Module::Install)

2008-04-15 0.18 Tels (6892 tests)
  * fix compilation under v5.6.2 (sigh)

2008-04-13 0.17 Tels (6892 tests)
  * forgot SvIOK() to SvUOK() (bug #29720, Thanx Alexey Tourbin!)

2007-09-16 0.16 Tels (6892 tests)
  * require Math::BigInt 1.88
  * disable prototypes
  * fix SvIV() vs. SvUV() in _new() (fix bug #29720)
  * it works back to v5.006 (thanx zefram!)

2007-06-30 0.15 Tels (6892 tests)
  * require Math::BigInt 1.87
  * add _nok()
  * bundle and use Module::Install
  * put _new() into the XS

2007-04-17 0.14 Tels (6438 tests)
  * require Math::BigInt 1.83
  * support api_version() 2 by adding _1ex() and _alen()
  * add a few tests

2007-04-09 0.13 Tels (6280 tests)
  * require Math::BigInt 1.82
  * revert the accidentily change to "NV elems" in _len
    (basically, apply the fix that was already in blead to the CPAN release)
  * plug all the leaks in _acmp(), _is_ten() etc. (Thanx Hugo!)

2007-03-03 0.12 Tels (6280 tests)
  * fix bug #25033 It leaks (Thanx M. Schwern!)
  * require Perl 5.6.2, anything older is unsupported and untested

2007-02-02 0.11 Tels (5953 tests)
  * require Math::BigInt 1.79
  * add support for _as_oct() and _from_oct()
  * add _length() to the method list

Older changelog:

0.01  Wed Jun  5 13:03:55 2002
	- original version; created by h2xs 1.21 with options
		-n Math::BigInt::FastCalc -A
2002-08-09 0.02 Tels
  - first working version of XS code of _is_even(), _is_odd()

2002-08-12 0.03 Tels
  - Took Calc.pm and converted it to FastCalc.pm
  - first two functions, _is_odd() and _is_even() in XS
  - testsuite from MBI v1.61
  - extended bigintc.t (also renamed to bigintfc.t)

2002-08-13 0.04 Tels first release
  - added is_zero(), is_one(), _zero(), _one(), _two() and _acmp()
  - more tests in bigintfc.t

  Some general observations:
  * is_*() methods are quite a bit faster than in Calc, but due to the
    overhead in Math::BigInt real programs will get only a bit faster
    (around 2-5%).
  * Comparisation is *much* faster, and even via Math::BigInt improves the
    performance by about factor 9 for large numbers. For smaller numbers (less
    than 8000 digits) it is still about factor 2.5 to 8. This is only valid if
    the numbers have both the same length. If the length is different, then
    FastCalc is still about a factor of 1.2 to 1.7 faster than Calc.

2002-08-13 0.05 Tels (5224 tests)
  * the note that "_len() and _acmp() are in XS" was missing
  * cleaned distribution of unwanted files

2002-08-25 0.06 Tels (5355 tests)
  * working _modinv() and fix for _rsft() taken over from Calc v0.32
  * added tests for _rsft() and _modinv()
  * require Math::BigInt v1.62
  * _num(), _dec() and _inc() are now in XS
    $MBI->numify() is about 50% faster
    $MBI->binc()/$MBI->bdec() are about 5-8% faster for numbers that don't
    overflow (much), and about 14% for ('9' x 100)->binc()
  * __strip_zeros() is no in XS, making it roughly 3 times as fast
  * added _copy(): more than twice as fast for large (> 1000 digits) numbers:

 Math::BigInt::Calc v0.32
          1:  3s ( 3.23 usr +  0.00 sys =  3.23 CPU) @ 38128/s (n=123154)
        100:  3s ( 3.19 usr +  0.00 sys =  3.19 CPU) @ 27397/s (n=87397)
       1000:  4s ( 3.29 usr +  0.00 sys =  3.29 CPU) @  8042/s (n=26460)
      10000:  4s ( 3.19 usr +  0.01 sys =  3.20 CPU) @   984/s (n=3149)
 
 Math::BigInt::FastCalc v0.06
          1:  3s ( 3.12 usr +  0.01 sys =  3.13 CPU) @ 39346/s (n=123155)
        100:  3s ( 3.10 usr +  0.00 sys =  3.10 CPU) @ 34138/s (n=105830)
       1000:  3s ( 3.09 usr +  0.00 sys =  3.09 CPU) @ 15807/s (n=48844)
      10000:  3s ( 3.20 usr +  0.00 sys =  3.20 CPU) @  2362/s (n=7559)

2004-08-13 0.07 Tels (5953 tests)
  * require BigInt v1.71, adapted to new API style by taking over Calc v0.41
    + added _is_two(), _is_ten(), and _ten()
  * cleaned XS code, got rid of "unused var" warnings (thanx perl-xs people!)

2005-01-01 0.08 Tels (5953 tests)
  * take tests from BigInt v1.74 and require it
  * remove needless Exporter in FastCalc
  * Makefile.PL: add writing of own meta file with correct licence
  * take over changes from Calc 0.44

2005-03-20 0.09 Tels (5953 tests)
  * take over changes from Calc 0.45 (fix bug with div shortcut)
  * require Math::BigInt v1.75 and use its tests

2005-03-30 0.10 Tels (5953 tests)
  * load Calc.pm and use its code to provide the routines that FastCalc
    does not yet have in XS (cut down Copy&Paste code considerably
  * require Math::BigInt v1.76 to properly load Calc.pm