On Jan 23, 2:29 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 11:48 PM, Paul Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<SNIP>
> > I guess 'long' is based on GMP too, does it make sense to have two
> > concurrent
> > interfaces to GMP integers?
> > Paul Zimmermann
>
> long is _not_ based on GMP. long is implemented from scratch in C by the
> Python developers. It is completely independent from GMP, and has much
> different performance characteristics, storage formats, etc.
FYI: The arbitrary precision arithmetic in Python 3K will be based on
GMP. Somebody posted prototype bindings on one of the GMP mailing
lists about 2 months ago.
<SNIP>
Cheers,
Michael
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