Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > any form of integer SIMD operation (vectors)
Wouldn't these be appropriately represented by a tuple of integers (or floats)? For example, a SIMD vector of four 32-bit integers could be represented as four Python ints. Or would that be "terrible for performance"? Note that the struct module may include support for int128_t, but it certainly won't have native support for every SIMD vector format under the sun (if they have different alignment requirements). > hosting and maintaining hash values which are routinely 128-bit and greater That sounds like a job for a bytes object (as returned by e.g. hashlib.sha1(...).digest()). ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19904> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
