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diff --git a/math/p5-Math-BigInt-Lite/pkg-descr b/math/p5-Math-BigInt-Lite/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f83d4bd52a52 --- /dev/null +++ b/math/p5-Math-BigInt-Lite/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Math::BigInt is not very good suited to work with small (read: typical less than +10 digits) numbers, since it has a quite high per-operation overhead and is thus +much slower than normal Perl for operations. + +But for some applications, you want fast speed for small numbers without the +risk of overflowing. This is were Math::BigInt::Lite comes into play. + +Math::BigInt::Lite objects should behave in every way like Math::BigInt objects, +that is apart from the different label, you should not be able to tell the +difference. Since Math::BigInt::Lite is designed with speed in mind, there are +certain limitations build-in. In praxis, however, you will not feel them, +because everytime something gets to big to pass as Lite (literally), it will +upgrade the objects and operation in question to Math::BigInt. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-BigInt-Lite/ |