Guido van Rossum wrote: >(Aside: you probably mean physicist, someone who practices physics. A >physician is a doctor; don't ask me why. :-) > > > ;) I'll remember ;)
>>interpreted languages are particularly good for physics simulations, in >>which small error would grow so much, that results are useless. >> >> > >We already have decimal floating point which can be configured to use >however many digits of precision you want. Would this be sufficient? >If you want more performance, perhaps you could tackle the very useful >project of translating decimal.py into C? > > > Yes, it seems like better idea - already written software would benefit that transparently. I think I could develop 'margin' ideas later. >I'm not sure I see the value of rational numbers implemeted in C; >they're easy to write in Python and all the time goes into division of >two ints which is already implemented in C. > > > Well, quite true ;P >Have you looked at the existing wrappers around OpenSSL, such as >pyopenssl and m2crypto? ISTM that these provide most of the needed >algorithms, already coded in open source C. > > > Well, you already convinced me to not do that right now, but I still think python would benefit that, and it would be done later on, but this discussion may be moved in time. >>I understand that most of these improvements have quite limited >>audience, but I still think python should be friendly to them ;) >> >> > >Sure. The question is, if there are more student applications than >Google wants to fund, which projects will be selected? I would >personally vote for the projects that potentially help out the largest >number of Python users. > > > So I think the most valuable of my ideas would be improving long int + coding decimal in C. Anyway, I think it would be possible to add other ideas later. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
