LARGE numbers

[Alex Martelli]

<casevh at comcast.net> wrote:
   ...
> Python does support large numbers, but it's not very fast for such
> large numbers. There is a Python module called GMPY that uses the GMP
> (Gnu Multiple Precision) library for faster operations on large
> numbers.

As the author of gmpy, I'd like to point out that the speed difference
isn't all that large, if all you're doing is ordinary arithmetic -- a
few times at most (it can be better if you need some of GMP's
functionality which gmpy exposes, such as primality testing).


Alex