On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > 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.
Okay, wasn't sure. I've seen others that use GMP (including Pike, which can also use arbitrary-precision floats if you wish). Wrong in the specifics, right in the concept. Thanks for the correction. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
