Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:46:30 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

Incidentally, in C, when dealing with large integers, each arithmetic
operations is a function call; “Y=X+((R-X)%(2*r1*r2))” gets a lot
wordier when all the variables can be hundreds or thousands of bits
long.

Out of curiosity, is it still worth using C when doing large-magnitude
integer arithmetic? At that point, so much of the CPU time is being spent
in the arithmetic operations, would it be easier (and not much slower) to
use a language like Python, which has large-magnitude integers built-in?