On Apr 20, 7:39 pm, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > <alessiogiovanni.baroni <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > There are reasons why Python not used the GMP library for implementing > > its long type? > > Basically, GMP only becomes faster when the numbers are huge.
That was true for one particular attempt in this direction (by Victor Stinner); I don't know whether more work would have fixed this. The other major issue is licensing: as far as I recall, the various discussions never came to a conclusion about the legal implications of using GMP. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
