Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> And the render time would be similar to flying to another galaxy with 
> current technology? :)

Quite possibly.

I haven't been able to dredge up any material of the performance of 
arbitrary-precision numbers versus simple primitives (not that I've 
looked very hard yet). I don't know if I'm dealing with something twice 
as slow, or a full order of magnitude speed difference, or something 
that gets exponentially worse.

But, yeah, it's definitely going to be slow. :-)

-- 
William Tracy
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    It occurred to him that now he was going to be not only the first 
man on Mars, but the first detective. He grinned at the thought, and the 
last action of the omegendorph set his nerves aglow.
     -- Kim Stanley Robinson, _Red Mars_

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