>> The reason for digits being a multiple of 5 bits should be revisited vs
>> its original intent
> I added that. The only intent was to make it easier to implement
> bigint exponentiation easily ...
That said, I see the comments in longintrepr.h note a stronger constraint:
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[Gregory P. Smith ]
> The reason for digits being a multiple of 5 bits should be revisited vs
> its original intent
I added that. The only intent was to make it easier to implement
bigint exponentiation easily while viewing the exponent as being in
base 32 (so as to chew up 5 bits at a time).. Sin
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 12:42 PM Gregory P. Smith wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 4:47 AM Mark Dickinson wrote:
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>> tl;dr: I'd like to deprecate and eventually remove the option to use
>> 15-bit digits in the PyLong implementation. Before doing so, I'd like to
>> find out whether there's any
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 4:47 AM Mark Dickinson wrote:
> tl;dr: I'd like to deprecate and eventually remove the option to use
> 15-bit digits in the PyLong implementation. Before doing so, I'd like to
> find out whether there's anyone still using 15-bit PyLong digits, and if
> so, why they're doin
tl;dr: I'd like to deprecate and eventually remove the option to use 15-bit
digits in the PyLong implementation. Before doing so, I'd like to find out
whether there's anyone still using 15-bit PyLong digits, and if so, why they're
doing so.
History: the use of 30-bit digits in PyLong was introd
