Heh, this is a more reasoned reply than my own as it points out an actual implementation difference between Python and Clojure. And of course you might need arbitrary precision arithmetic in your program, but again this just reinforces the insignificance of microbenchmarks without some context of what you are actually trying to achieve.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Christian Vest Hansen <karmazi...@gmail.com>wrote: > > It is safe to assume that Python uses the GMP library for its infinite > precision math, no? This could be a big part of the explanation as, if > the language shootouts are to be believed, BigInteger and BigDecimal > have inferior performance when compared to what can be achieved with > GMP. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
