Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number

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Date	2015-04-12 10:16 +1000
Subject	Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> I believe longobject effectively represents ints in base 2**15 or 2**30 (or
> 31?) for 32 and 64 bit machines, so that products of 'digits' fit in a
> single machine word.  (I am not sure if the increased size for 64 bit
> machines was implemented or not.)
>
>> Performance doesn't seem to change in Py3 as
>> the numbers get bigger:
>
> I suspect the effect is more dramatic with multiplication.

Sorry, sloppy language. Of course larger numbers will be a bit slower,
but there's no stark change at the edge of the machine word. The
performance loss from going from one limb to two will be comparable to
the loss from going from five to six, where it's already well past
machine integer. In Py2, there's a significant difference between
"int" performance and "long" performance (regardless of the actual
size of integer involved), but Py3 is more consistent.

It's a missed optimization at worst, but the upshot is that a Python
programmer doesn't need to think about integer sizes at all.

ChrisA

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    Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-11 12:04 +1000
      Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Stephen Tucker <stephen_tucker@sil.org> - 2015-04-11 06:11 +0100
      Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-10 23:08 -0700
        Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-04-11 10:14 +0300
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              Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 10:52 -0700
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 07:10 +1000
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-04-11 19:58 -0400
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 10:16 +1000
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