2**HUGENUMBER Why not optimise it?

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu May 23 06:33:32 EDT 2002


"Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at rogers.com> writes:

> Maybe I'll just give up on trying to interest people in Python
> optimisation challenges.  The good-old days of idle speculation and
> optimisation are dead.  Time to stop living in the past.  Idea
> dropped, back to boring GUI work.

Do you feel like implementing Karatsuba multiplication in
longobject.c?  That might actually be some use...

Cheers,
M.

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