Martin v. Löwis wrote: > You mean, as the digits? You would have to rewrite the entire long > datatype, which is a tedious exercise. Plus, I believe you would have > to make some operations 64-bit on all systems: when you multiply > digits today, the product will be 32-bit. If you extend the digits, > you might get 64-bit results, which will be slow on 32-bit systems > (plus some 32-bit systems don't support a 64-bit integer type at all > in their compilers).
I pass! :) It may be worth a try for Python 4.0 when most OS are 64bit. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
