Adding Evan since he knows best what prevented the use of MPFR when the code was initially added.

In D21495#472071, @cfeck wrote:

Adding Evan since he knows best what prevented the use of MPFR when the code was initially added.

Thanks.

Honestly, it was disabled by default just because it was new and I didn't want any difference in behavior seemingly out of nowhere. The code is probably pretty good, though i expect some regression tests will have different results due to the difference in precision.

In D21495#472200, @teran wrote:

In D21495#472071, @cfeck wrote:

Adding Evan since he knows best what prevented the use of MPFR when the code was initially added.

Thanks.

Honestly, it was disabled by default just because it was new and I didn't want any difference in behavior seemingly out of nowhere. The code is probably pretty good, though i expect some regression tests will have different results due to the difference in precision.

I'm attaching the output generated by knumbertest.
Is there any other tests I can run to ensure it's all ok?

Evan, any objections? I would like to commit it to master branch.

Marcelo, please add a comment to bug 407318 with a link to this phabricator page. The mail address is used for the author attribution.

In D21495#474048, @cfeck wrote:

Evan, any objections? I would like to commit it to master branch.

Marcelo, please add a comment to bug 407318 with a link to this phabricator page. The mail address is used for the author attribution.

Done

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@cfeck any objections here? I'll wait a few days for an outcome.