> 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.

GMP is a very fast arbitrary-size number library. But it's integer only 
so I don't think that can help you much :)

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