André pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/06/2004, at 6:31 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>> The major problem is: we need bignum now^Wtomorrow^WRSN. The Pie-thon >> benchmarks does use long (integer?) arithmetics: +, - *, //, % AFAIK. > Is there a big problem with using GMP for the purposes of the demo? I don't think that this should be a problem. > And, what does Python use for arbitrary-precision integers? They have their own lib (base 2^15 binary digits). > ... It only > seems fair to be using the same library as Python, if you want a decent > bignum speed comparison. Python::F<longobject.c> is not pluggable, it's full of Python internals. leo
