Re: Optimize numeric.c mul_var() using the Karatsuba algorithm

On 2024-Jun-30, Joel Jacobson wrote:

> However, I can imagine other crypto algorithms might require larger factors,
> as well as other scientific research use cases, such as astronomy and physics,
> that could desire storage of numeric values of very high precision.

FWIW I was talking to some people with astronomical databases, and for
reasons that seem pretty relatable they prefer to do all numerical
analysis outside of the database, and keep the database server only for
the data storage and retrieval parts. It seems a really hard sell that
they would try to do that analysis in the database, because the
paralellizability aspect is completely different for the analysis part
than for the database part -- I mean, they can easily add more servers
to do photography analysis, but trying to add database servers (to cope
with additional load from doing the analysis there) is a much harder
sell.

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