[issue1814] Victor Stinner's GMP patch for longs

[Christian Heimes]

New submission from Christian Heimes:

A while ago Victor Stinner has spend several weeks in porting PyLongs to
GMP:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-September/010718.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-October/010755.html

Although his patch didn't give the speedup he hoped for, the patch might
be interesting someday in the future. He never submitted it to our bug
tracker. I'm posting it to conserve it for the future.

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components: Interpreter Core
files: py3k-long_gmp-v2.patch
messages: 59828
nosy: marketdickinson, tim_one, tiran
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Victor Stinner's GMP patch for longs
type: rfe
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9141/py3k-long_gmp-v2.patch

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