Alternatives (1/2)
vec()
- confusing
- insufficiently powerful for many applications
PDL
- complicated
- designed primarily for astronomical data analysis and heavy duty
number crunching (written in C, internally)
Math::PARI
- very powerful
- requires separate C library "PARI"
Math::BigInt (is in the Core of Perl 5.6)
- slow (written entirely in Perl, stores digits in Perl arrays)
Math::BigInteger
- unmaintained, doesn't compile (uses XS and a C library)