[Python-Dev] Pie-thon benchmarks

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:05 AM -0500 12/15/03, Tim Peters wrote:
>[Michael Hudson]
>>  If something important -- like a pieing <wink> -- 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.  The idea is to bury Dan under
>esoteric algorithms from a huge number of obscure specialties <wink>.

Heh. You're expecting me to do far too much work. I plan on tackling 
bytecode optimization only if it turns out that a straightforward 
transform from python bytecode to parrot bytecode is isn't 
sufficiently faster than CPython. Funky algorithms expressed entirely 
in python bytecode won't make much of a difference...
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                                         Dan

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