On 9/9/07, Nicholas Bastin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not suggesting that Python handle small ints itself and then farm > out large integer computations, I'm suggesting that since we've > already coalesced small ints into 'large' ones, we might want to > review the performance implications of that decision, and possibly > consider that other people have already solved this problem. Clearly > GMP appears to fail on a technical level, but there might be other > options worth investigating.
The performance problems that are affecting us most are for small-value ints. The old PyInt type has many custom optimizations to help. I think we could do worse than re-introducing some of the same tricks, retargeted to PyLong (which never got much attention for small-value performance). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
