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jbooth on July 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is [programming language] so...?

Last time I checked and did the math, I counted about 500 bytes of overhead in a java BigInteger.

Still, I wouldn't call that "java being slow", more, "java having a god awful BigInteger library class".

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