Finding bitprecision

Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.pari.devel
Message-ID <ZYE2Rsr+QQaOhT/[email protected]> 
Should not there be O(1) way to find the current localbitprecision()?

  (22:17) gp > localprec(10000);   my(s); for(n=1,100000,  s+=bitprecision(1.));
  time = 78 ms.
  (22:17) gp > localprec(1000000); my(s); for(n=1,100000,  s+=bitprecision(1.));
  time = 2,121 ms.

Thanks,
Ilya
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