Use GMP as default implementation of integers in Python3

[Hans Aberg]

On 5 Nov 2008, at 22:48, James Youngman wrote:

>>  Do you know other successful integration of GMP in languages?
...
> I think GNU Common LISP uses CLN, which uses GMP's low-level
> functions.   See http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gcl/gcl/gmp/

The Haskell compiler GHC <http://haskell.org/ghc/> also uses (or  
used) GMP. But Haskell is a statically typed language, where one can  
choose between fixed sized types like Int, and variable sized  
integers. So the latter are not used as general integral type, as the  
original question seemed to ask for. It is possible to write Haskell  
code that is nearly as fast as C code, but then one will have to  
avoid high-level language constructs (discussed on the Haskell-Cafe  
mailing list).

   Hans