[Python-Dev] 64 bit units in PyLong

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
<python-dev at python.org> wrote:
> On 05/07/2017 20:05, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>
>> Oh, and you'd have to rewrite the power algorithm, which currently
>> depends on the size of a limb in bytes being a multiple of 5. :-)
>>
>
> What is a limb, as my search foo has let me down?

A thing that has a bunch of digits, but fits inside a machine word.

https://gmplib.org/manual/Nomenclature-and-Types.html

ChrisA