[issue40793] print() performance problem with very large numbers

2020-05-27 Thread U.W.
New submission from U.W. : Printing very large numbers takes forever. Example: print((2**24)**(3840*2160)) That number has about 60 Million digits and my machine is busy now for more than an hour and still not finished. The calculation of the number is no problem, btw. and finishes in under

[issue40793] print() performance problem with very large numbers

2020-05-29 Thread U.W.
U.W. added the comment: That's ok for me. It *is* a rare edge case. FYI, printing this 60 Million digit number took about 12 hours on my i7. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/is

[issue40793] print() performance problem with very large numbers

2020-06-02 Thread U.W.
U.W. added the comment: Well, the number in itself is not so useful, but... - I encountered a performance problem in Python where I did not expect one - Other people will encounter that, too, and now they easily find the reason behind it (I would not have opened this bug if I had found an