Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Jens Axel Søgaard]

Daniel C. Wang wrote:
> Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> writes:

>>I disagree strongly here. I am convinced that in most algorithms,
>>machine words don't matter at all. Have you ever seen in books on
>>algorithms that they actually _need_ to restrict them to values that
>>are representable in machine word sizes?

> Hmmm.. lets see... AES and  MD5 most if not all DSP/ signal processing
> algorithms. There are quite a few. 

It's true that they are specified such that particularly efficient
implementations exists on machines with the proper word size. This
holds for many crypthographic algorithms.

This doesn't rule out other implementations though.

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   <http://www.scheme.dk/md5/md5.html>

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Jens Axel Søgaard