2001-07-09 v1.00 Tels
* First release.
2001-07-13 v1.01 Tels
* new testsuite from BigInt v1.37, tweaks to it to silence Exporter
* $class => __PACKAGE__
2001-07-22 v1.02 Tels (never released)
* removed $class/__PACKAGE__ checks entirely
* fixed 2 ** something to be more efficient
* made Bit::Vector a requirement
2001-08-03 v1.03 Tels
* added tests from MBI v1.40
2001-09-03 v1.04 Tels
* _as_hex(), _as_bin()
* tests from MBI 1.42
* removed default exporting, added empty import()
2001-11-01 v1.05 Tels
* testsuite from BigInt v1.45
2001-11-11 v1.06 Tels
* made _inc/_dec faster and added tests for them
* fixed bug in __reduce() that made it never work (oups, forgot debug again)
2002-02-10 v1.07 Tels
* added _lsft() and _rsft() for more speed on shifting
* tests from MBI v1.50 (3685 vs. 2932 tests)
2002-02-19 v1.08 Tels
* added _fac() for factorial speed improvements
* streamlined some functions (removed return)
* _mul() does no longer create a result of max($m,$n)*2, but a $m+$n+2 bits
Quite some performance gains when $m much is greater/smaller than $n.
The improvement for small numbers is due to the saved call to max()
Sat Feb 16 19:12:04 2002 Numbers are relative to v1.50_BitVect_v1.07,
100 denotes 100%.
| v1.50
| BitVect
| v1.08
-------------------+----------
1 * 1 | 105
2 * 2 | 103
12 * 12 | 103
123 * 123 | 101
1234 * 1234 | 104
12345 * 12345 | 103
123456*123456 | 100
1234567*1234567 | 101
12345678*12345678 | 102
12345679*12345679 | 102
12 * 2 | 100
123 * 2 | 104
1234 * 2 | 103
12345 * 2 | 102
123456 * 2 | 102
1234567 * 2 | 103
12345678 * 2 | 103
123456789 * 2 | 102
1e10 * 1e10 | 104
1e100 * 1e100 | 101
1e1000 * 1e1000 | 100
1 * -1 | 102
1e1000 * 1 | 108 <-- !
1e1000 * 10 | 112 <-- !
1e1000 * -10 | 110 <-- !
bmul: | 103
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2002-02-21 v1.09 Tels
* tests from v1.51
* replaced _core_lib() by config()->{lib}
2002-03-24 v1.10 Tels
* tests from v1.55
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