Hi, Le Monday 03 November 2008 18:56:37 Paul Miller, vous avez écrit : > I've read some of the past discussion about including GMP into the > python core and understand the reasons for not doing so.
Please, check this issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue1814 I patched Python3 to use GMP because I thaugh that GMP is much faster than Python for integer computation. The "problem" is that GMP target are integers much bigger than 10**100. As I remember, GMP has a special hack for very small integer: integer which can be stored in one CPU word, but it's not enough to speed up Python. With my last patch, with GMP, Python is 2% *slower*. My patch can be improved, but I expected +20% to +100% to no -2% :-/ And there is also the license issue... -- Victor Stinner aka haypo http://www.haypocalc.com/blog/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
