casevh: > Testing 2 digits. This primarily measures the overhead for call GMP > via an extension module. > ...
Thank you for adding some actual data to the whole discussion :-) If you perform similar benchmarks with Bigints of Java you will see how much slower they are compared to the Python ones. Mark Dickinson: >Apart from that, I'm not sure there's much snot left to be optimized out, as >they say...< Using inline ASM in Python sources isn't an option. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
