[Python-Dev] Re: [bug?] UserLong.py - pow(5, UserLong(3), 26) fails

[Michael Hudson]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@samba-tng.org> writes:

> michael,
> 
> the point of doing a UserLong.py is that it is an easy way
> to add in profiling and debug info and to evaluate alternative
> implementations of Long numbers.
> 
> the ultimate aim is to find out if it is worth adding in
> support for Aspex Technology's massively parallel signal
> processor chip as a python co-processor.

I see.

Another idea: make UserLong a "new-style class".  I'm not sure what
this changes, but it changes "stuff" in this area...

Cheers,
M.

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