New submission from Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Here's an experimental patch, against the py3k branch, that makes Python represent its long integers internally in base 2**30 instead of base 2**15, on platforms that have 32-bit and 64-bit integers available.
On platforms for which autoconf is unable to find both 32-bit and 64-bit integers, the representation falls back to the usual one. See also issue 1814 (GMP for longs), and the discussion at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-November/083315.html (note particularly Tim Peter's message at: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-November/083355.html ) ---------- components: Interpreter Core files: 30bit_longdigit.patch keywords: patch messages: 75491 nosy: marketdickinson severity: normal status: open title: Use 30-bit digits instead of 15-bit digits for Python integers. type: performance versions: Python 3.1 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11935/30bit_longdigit.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4258> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
