"Steven D'Aprano" <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
py> from timeit import Timer py> t1 = Timer("(a**b)*(c**d)", setup="a,b,c,d = 10, 25, 2, 50") py> min(t1.repeat(repeat=5, number=100000)) 0.5256571769714355 So that's about 5 microseconds on my (slow) computer.
That's pretty fast. So is there still a need for a GMP python-binding like gmpy? http://code.google.com/p/gmpy/wiki/IntroductionToGmpy GMP can include optimized assembler for the CPU you're using. But I guess it needs more memory. Hence disk-swapping could be an issue on performance. --gv -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list