On 4/21/06, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > 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.
I see "redo Decimal in C" (possibly with the addition of some fast elementary transcendentals) and "enhance operations on longs" (multiplication first and foremost, and base-conversions probably next, as you suggested -- possibly with the addition of some fast number-theoretical functions) as two separate projects, each of just about the right magnitude for an SoC project. I would be glad to mentor either (not both); my preference would be for the former -- it appears to me that attempting to do both together might negatively impact both. Remember, it isn't just the coding...: thorough testing, good docs, accurate performance measurements on a variety of platforms, ..., are all important part of a project that, assuming success, it's scheduled to become a core part of Python 2.6, after all. Alex _______________________________________________ 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
