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Author	vstinner
Recipients	collinwinter, eric.smith, gawain, gregory.p.smith, mark.dickinson, vstinner
Date	2009-09-10.07:48:40
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Message-id	<1252568922.5.0.179955751627.issue6713@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> If you're working with huge integers and care about speed, then > you should probably be using gmpy or similar I disagree with you, mark. The patch is around 20 lines and does optimize all cases, not only the "huge integers". See my benchmark: conversion for small integers (type 'int') are also faster (7 to 22%). I think that the base 10 is more common than 2^k bases, and a conversion from integer to decimal string is a very common operation in Python.

> If you're working with huge integers and care about speed, then 
> you should probably be using gmpy or similar

I disagree with you, mark. The patch is around 20 lines and does optimize all
cases, not only the "huge integers". See my benchmark: conversion for small
integers (type 'int') are also faster (7 to 22%). I think that the base 10 is more
common than 2^k bases, and a conversion from integer to decimal string is a
very common operation in Python.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-09-10 07:48:42	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, collinwinter, gregory.p.smith, mark.dickinson, eric.smith, gawain
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