To my 

> > Because parsing from a decimal string  is actually 
> >         conversion of an natural number from the decimal system to binary
> > [..]
> > This leads to  O( n*log(n)^2*(log(log(n))) ) <  O( n*(log(n))^3 )
> > 
> > of which  Waldek Hebish  wrote recently.
> > [..]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:24:27PM +0100, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> This method is implemented in GMP.  For small n other methods are
> faster, but above few thousends digits GMP uses Shoenhage-Strassen
> method.
> [..]
> BTW: I have now commited new package containing a function
> for parsing integers.  When using sbcl it is much faster than
> methods builtin into sbcl.  When using GMP with sbcl it is
> asymptotically fast, and also quite fast for small numbers.
> 

This is great.

My noise about fast parsing of a decimal integer was because from the start 
I erroneousely kept in mind that it is easy to write a program of something 
like O(n*log(n)), and with a small threshold. But the threshold occurs 
large.

Regards,

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Sergei
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