[issue3451] Asymptotically faster divmod and str(long)
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Aug 11 12:40:28 CEST 2008
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
> Indeed, that seems to be much faster. In the mean time, do you mind if I
> steal the code? :-)
Not at all!
I guess constant factors could well appear and/or disappear when
recoding in C; it might well be worth trying to implement both
methods to see which is faster.
There are some semi-obvious tricks available that might speed up the
recursive version. For one thing, all shifts should be in multiples
of 15 bits (because longs are stored in base 2**15). For another, it
ought to be possible to avoid the single-bit normalization shifts
every time the number of bits ('n') is odd---one can do a single
shift at the beginning of the calculation instead.
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