>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Neuss <Nicolas.Neuss@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:
Nicolas> What I would need most is multiprecision floating point numbers. Do you
Nicolas> know a separate package for this? (I know CLISP has this, but CLISP does
Nicolas> not do native code compilation and is therefore not suited for hardcore
Nicolas> numerics. And I need it sometimes also out of the initialization phase,
If you need fairly large multiprecision floating point numbers, I
think Clisp is good since it has the fastest bignum arithmetic I know
of. But, yes, you are also doing intensive HW floating-point, then
Clisp isn't so good.
Ray