a function to get multiplication threshold?

[Torbjorn Granlund]

Serge Winitzki <serge@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> writes:

  > > However I think it's a useful piece of information to have.
  > 
  > Alas I don't think should be done, it's highly implementation
  > dependent.
  
  I'm not sure I understand why a function such as
  
  unsigned gmp_mul_threshold { return MUL_KARATSUBA_THRESHOLD; }
  
  should not be put into GMP.
   
Because the GMP developers think it would not be very useful.

Torbjörn