[Python-Dev] python2.3 on m68k-nommu uClinux, really slow

[Jeff Epler]

This question may be better asked on python-list than python-dev.

One likely cause is the implementation of integer multiplication, which
uses floating point arithmetic to determine whether the result of the
multiplication overflows or is implicitly converted to long.  I am
guessing that that your system probably doesn't have hardware floating
point.

If this is true, you could usefully replace the code by a custom
32x32->64 multiply and slightly modified test, or anything else that
still does the right thing.  (python 2.1 seems to use a different method
that only uses integers, you might steal that instead)

This code is at least in intobject.c and may be inlined in ceval.c for
the BINARY_MULTIPLY opcode.

Jeff