[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > DecInt's division algorithm is completely general also. But I would > never claim that Python code is faster than assembler. I believe that > careful implementation of a good algorithm is more important than the > raw speed of the language or efficiency of the compiler. Python makes > it easy to implement algorithms.
that was of course the point here (and your work with DecInt is an excellent illustration of this principle). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list