Browser plug-in exposes 226 GMP functions to JavaScript

[John Tobey]

JavaScript bindings for GMP in Firefox, Chrome, etc.

https://github.com/jtobey/javascript-bignum/tree/master/src

This directory contains source code for a browser plug-in that gives
scripts access to GMP, the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library.
The code status is alpha to early beta.

The plugin supports most GMP functions.  For a list, see
gmp-entries.h.  The code uses NPAPI, so the plugin should run in all
major browsers *except* Internet Explorer.  I have tested it (briefly)
in Firefox 11.0 and Chrome 19.0.1084.30.

The plugin can crash on certain input, such as requesting the square
root of a negative number.  This is hard to fix.

The per-call time overhead is quite high, unless you configure your
browser to run the plug-in in-process.  But if you do, the plug-in can
crash the browser.

This is free software and comes with NO WARRANTY as explained in
../LICENSE.

You will need:

    * GNU/Linux or a similar operating system, or some porting
      experience.
    * npapi.h and accompanying files:
      http://code.google.com/p/npapi-sdk/
    * the GMP development package: http://gmplib.org/devel/
    * a C compiler: http://gcc.gnu.org/
    * Make: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/

To install, run the following commands.  If successful, restart your
browser and open the example page, gmp-example.html.  The example
simply pops up an alert containing the result of a calculation.

    make
    mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins/
    cp libgmp-plugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Errors?  Questions?  Ideas?  Email me: John.Tobey at gmail.com