MPC is built on exclusively top of GMP, PARI is not

Posted Jul 23, 2012 16:51 UTC (Mon) by stevenj (guest, #421)
In reply to: GNU MPC 1.0 "Fagus silvatica" released by rwst
Parent article: GNU MPC 1.0 "Fagus silvatica" released

There is an obvious reason why GNU would adopt MPC rather than PARI: MPC is designed exclusively as an extension of GNU MP and GNU MPFR, whereas PARI has its own multiprecision arithmetic implementation (although it can optionally use GMP). It makes sense for GNU to centralize on a single MP library.