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GMP is very well optimized and implemented in assembly. There's no way that a JavaScript implementation can get anywhere close to that performance since JavaScript doesn't even have support for 64 bit integers. WebAssembly might be faster, but is still lacking many instructions commonly used for big integer arithmetic.



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