Re: gmp issues (long)

[Stephen Compall]

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Rob Browning wrote:
     replace the _mp_size field with a short, since I doubt that we'd
     ever be likely to overflow long data[MAX_SHORT] digits. (What was
     the size limit, if any, on our old bignums?).

My first use of GMP in C (after the requisite playing around while 
learning) was to try to build up a Godel number as an example in a 
project involving semigroups I'm working on (OT). After creating one of 
these numbers, I believe the memory usage of the mpz_t & friends was ~5 
MB. While this was an abnormal case, it's still far off from 256k. 
er....

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