Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: On the other hand, _PyLong_Format currently contains general machinery for integer -> string conversion in any base in the range [2, 36], but I don't think that machinery is ever used for bases other than 2, 8, 10 and 16. So ripping _PyLong_Format out and just leaving the binary base and the suggested base 10 code might actually make longobject.c shorter.
I'd be interested to know how much the conversion of two digits at one time instead of one is contributing to the speedup by itself. For large integers, I'd suspect that this makes very little difference. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6713> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
