mp_size_t

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2021-10-06 11:53:10 +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Hans Åberg <hans.aberg-1 at telia.com> writes:
> 
>   How large is this overhead?
> 
> 8 bytes per mpz_t.
> 
> (That might not matter to some people, but imagine somebody with huge
> matrices of mpz_t.)

But people with many small integers could choose an alternate
representation for these small integers, better than mpz_t
(with a tag to specify which representation is used).

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