Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment:
About speed, the fsum() version I posted ran about twice as fast as the all-Decimal approach, but the add_on() version runs a little slower than all-Decimal. I assume that's because fsum() is coded in C while the add_on() prototype makes mounds of additional Python-level function calls. Using released Windows 3.8.5 CPython and on argument vectors of length 50. Is it worth it? Up to you ;-) There are good arguments to be made in favor of increased accuracy, and in favor of speed. About "correctly rounded", such a claim can only be justified by proof, not by testing (unless testing exhaustively covers the entire space of inputs). Short of that, best you can claim is stuff like "max error < 0.51 ulp" (or whatever other bound can be proved). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41513> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
