These changes have been made to resolve issue #10037. The `Random`
interface was implemented in such a way that causes significant slowdown
when calling the `fill` function of the rng used.
The `Random` interface is no longer stored in a field of the rng, and is
instead returned by the child function `random()` of the rng. This
avoids the performance issues caused by the interface.
We already have a LICENSE file that covers the Zig Standard Library. We
no longer need to remind everyone that the license is MIT in every single
file.
Previously this was introduced to clarify the situation for a fork of
Zig that made Zig's LICENSE file harder to find, and replaced it with
their own license that required annual payments to their company.
However that fork now appears to be dead. So there is no need to
reinforce the copyright notice in every single file.
Now there are 3 types:
* std.math.big.int.Const
- the memory is immutable, only stores limbs and is_positive
- all methods operating on constant data go here
* std.math.big.int.Mutable
- the memory is mutable, stores capacity in addition to limbs and
is_positive
- methods here have some Mutable parameters and some Const
parameters. These methods expect callers to pre-calculate the
amount of resources required, and asserts that the resources are
available.
* std.math.big.int.Managed
- the memory is mutable and additionally stores an allocator.
- methods here perform the resource calculations for the programmer.
- this is the high level abstraction from before
Each of these 3 types can be converted to the other ones.
You can see the use case for this in the self-hosted compiler, where we
only store limbs, and construct the big ints as needed.
This gets rid of the hack where the allocator was optional and the
notion of "fixed" versions of the struct. Such things are now modeled
with the `big.int.Const` type.
