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Author	vstinner
Recipients	christian.heimes, gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2008-12-05.14:32:27
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Message-id	<1228487548.23.0.212990611144.issue1814@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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After many benchmarks, I realized that it's not a good idea to use GMP for the int (and long) integers because most integers are very small: less or equals than 32 bits (or 64 bits on a 64 bits CPU). GMP overhead is too big. See other propositions to optimize Python integers.

After many benchmarks, I realized that it's not a good idea to use GMP 
for the int (and long) integers because most integers are very small: 
less or equals than 32 bits (or 64 bits on a 64 bits CPU). GMP 
overhead is too big. See other propositions to optimize Python 
integers.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-12-05 14:32:28	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, gvanrossum, tim.peters, mark.dickinson, christian.heimes
2008-12-05 14:32:28	vstinner	set	messageid: <1228487548.23.0.212990611144.issue1814@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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