STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
Python has a reasonable efficiency up to 1000 decimal digits (according to benchmark) which is already really great! Operations with more than 1000 decimal digits is an uncommon. IMO you should use a dedicated library like GMP for that. I would prefer to keep CPython code simple enough to maintain. Objects/longobject.c is already 5744 lines of C code. longformat_BZ.diff adds around 700 lines of code, but it only makes str(int) starting at 2000 decimal digits. Yeah, we could do better for integers with <many digits>, but I would prefer not to :-) Python has a limited number of volunteers working on it, and it's not specialized in numbers. We should keep the maintenance burden at an acceptable level ;-) ---------- resolution: -> wont fix stage: patch review -> resolved status: languishing -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue3451> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
