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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Mon Dec 15 11:17:02 EST 2003

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:

[Michael Hudson]

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... "Not that hard" depends on your background.

Granted, but while my background is maths it's not numerics and I know where to find descriptions and implementations of complexity-wise better algorithms. Using them is just a matter of engineering, right?

The idea is to bury Dan under esoteric algorithms from a huge number of obscure specialties .

Now there's a plan! Let's see, how do we do that? Excessive use of dicts, unicode esoterica and multiple inheritance seems like a good start.

Cheers, mwh

-- Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp

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