creachadair / imath

Arbitrary precision integer and rational arithmetic library
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mp_int_to_string gets exponentially slower with big numbers #50

Open infradig opened 3 years ago

infradig commented 3 years ago

What can I say, it's go make cup of tea slow to write a 695K digit number to a buffer, like 4 minutes. GMP will do the equivalent in under a second.

Apart from that, it's great!

infradig commented 3 years ago

Also libtommath seems to do it quickly.