Message 75491 - Python tracker

Message75491

Author	mark.dickinson
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Date	2008-11-04.10:45:02
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Here's an experimental patch, against the py3k branch, that makes Python represent its long integers internally in base 230 instead of base 215, on platforms that have 32-bit and 64-bit integers available. On platforms for which autoconf is unable to find both 32-bit and 64-bit integers, the representation falls back to the usual one. See also issue 1814 (GMP for longs), and the discussion at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-November/083315.html (note particularly Tim Peter's message at: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-November/083355.html )

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Here's an experimental patch, against the py3k branch, that makes Python 
represent its long integers internally in base 2**30 instead of base 
2**15, on platforms that have 32-bit and 64-bit integers available.

On platforms for which autoconf is unable to find both 32-bit and 64-bit 
integers, the representation falls back to the usual one.


See also issue 1814 (GMP for longs), and the discussion at

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-November/083315.html

(note particularly Tim Peter's message at:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-November/083355.html
)

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