Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Raymond Hettinger <python <at> rcn.com> writes: > >>>>> You might also want to collect a list of serious changes that you >>>>> want in this release; >> I'm making minor updates to the decimal module to match the 1.68 version of > the spec. > > What about decimal-in-C, by the way? Is anyone still working on it?
There was a bit of a difference in philosophy between Mark and Raymond as to how best to proceed with speeding it up (Mark's patch [1] focuses solely on speeding up mantissa manipulation, while Raymond suggested a more extensive rewrite in C would be preferable), so progress on the issue stalled. It would probably require at least a comment from Raymond saying to proceed with the custom mantissa type approach to get that patch moving again. Alternatively, if Raymond actually gets the project sponsorship he mentioned a couple of months ago, that would also get things moving again (just in a different direction). Cheers, Nick. [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue2486 -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
