Hi Alex, > However, I am aware of the fact that in picoLisp the printing of > numeric results is often much more expensive than the actual > calculations, due to the conversions necessary for the decimal base.
> If I take out the final (prinl Y) from gmp-test2.l, I get: > It makes a considerable difference. Interesting, it does not seem to make much difference with the C version when I take the final 'printf' out of the C code. > So I believe that for practical uses, where processing does not > consist solely of arithmetics, the overhead will be negligible, and > not justify extra efforts. Yes, I haven't got any issues with bignum performance in picolisp;-) We are not using picolisp to compute Mersenne prime numbers http://www.mersenne.org/ after all:-D Cheers, Tomas -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picol...@software-lab.de?subject=unsubscribe
