On 1/4/07, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> It is not clear what you are advocating here, But deprecating the
> (bigfloat) version of it seems to me would be a BIG mistake.
Maybe it got lost among the recent flurry of messages but:
I'm not advocating removing bromberg anymore.
> There are other things to do: how about replacing bigfloats (which I wrote)
> by MPFR (which I did not write, but is actively under development and
> appears to be fast). I don't see offhand an MPFR numerical integrator (but
> one could be built with Romberg).. Another possibility is to use
> quad-double integration which has been studied by Sherry Li:
> http://crd.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/fp.html
These are all good ideas.
Robert