[Python-Dev] Pie-thon benchmarks (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Mon Dec 15 05:14:17 EST 2003

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

If you want a benchmark to make CPython look good, do a few hundred thousand very-long int multiplications, stick 'em in a list, and sort it . Ah, but then Dan will just add Karatsuba multiplication to Parrot, too. And AFAIK, Timsort isn't patented. :-)

If something important -- like a pieing -- depends on it, and the ints are long enough, it's not that hard to do better than Karatsuba multiplication...

Cheers, mwh

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