Python and GMP.

[casevh]

On Apr 21, 12:11 am, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> casevh <cas... 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.

$ py25 -m timeit -s  "a=long('23'*150);b=long('47'*150);m=long
('79'*150)" "c=pow(a,b,m)"
10 loops, best of 3: 52.7 msec per loop
$ py31 -m timeit -s  "a=int('23'*150);b=int('47'*150);m=int('79'*150)"
"c=pow(a,b,m)"
100 loops, best of 3: 8.85 msec per loop
$ py25 -m timeit -s  "import gmpy;a=gmpy.mpz('23'*150);b=gmpy.mpz
('47'*150);m=gmpy.mpz('79'*150)" "c=pow(a,b,m)"
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.26 msec per loop

casevh