casevh <casevh at gmail.com> writes: > Python 3.1 is significantly faster than Python 2.x on 64-bit > platforms. The following times are for multiplication with 2, 30 and > 300 decimal digits. Could you test pow(a,b,c) where a,b,c are each 300 decimal digits? This is an important operation in cryptography, that GMP is carefully optimized for. Thanks.