[Python-Dev] Optionally using GMP to implement long if available (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Mon Nov 3 21:41:33 CET 2008

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/

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