2**HUGENUMBER Why not optimise it?

[Christian Tismer]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> writes:

[longobject]

>>Although this was on the table two or three years ago,
> 
> I know.  I remember.  That thread was probably the first place I heard
> of Karatsuba multiplication...
> 
>>and dissed as well, although cheap to implement.
> 
> I don't think it got dissed; as I recall Tim and yourself slung Python
> versions around for a bit and then said "now who's going to translate
> this into C for longobject.c?" whereupon the thread died very quickly.

You are right, I remember. I think at that time
I wasn't yet able to write C extensions.
(Maybe, or evenly properly was too lazy :)

> Cheers,
> M.
> PS: longobject.c is surely the most horrible bit of source in the
>     Python distribution.  I certainly wouldn't want to hack on it.

I don't think so. It took me much shorter to understand
than ceval.c ...

ciao - chris

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