On 22.01.2014 19:26, Chris Angelico wrote: > Internally, I believe CPython uses the GNU Multiprecision Library > (GMP), which gives an efficient representation and operation format, > scaling to infinity or thereabouts. You can go to any size of integer > you like without there being any difference. There's a cost to that > (even small integers are a bit slower to work with), but it's SO > helpful to be able to work with arbitrarily large numbers that it's > worth that cost.
Small correction: Python isn't using GMP. Python uses its own implementation. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
