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Re:Mpmath – Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-... by dbyte on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @08:28AM (#11109622)
For their website:

  mpmath internally uses Python's builtin long integers by default, but automatically switches to GMP/MPIR for much faster high-precision arithmetic if gmpy is installed or if mpmath is imported from within Sage.
With gmpy you rely on C libraries. Faster but those are still arbitrary precision computionations.
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Re:Mpmath – Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-... by adrianN on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @09:15AM (#11109877)
Yes, that's for the numbers, but the algorithms are Python. Computing eigenvectors or complicated stuff like that in Python probably takes a lot longer than using a library written in Fortran.
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