On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > As far as decimal.py in particular goes, there are significant > maintenance gains in keeping a lot of the non-performance critical > context management code in pure Python. So we're likely to wait and see > how much speed Mark can wring out of a simple C decimal coefficient > object
No need to wait for this. :-) I don't really expect to get much speed gain at all in normal, low-precision (= precisions less than 100 digits, say) use. Even doubling the speed would be way too much to hope for here. The only real gain from a decimal integer coefficient would be fixing the asymptotics for high-precision calculations. Mark _______________________________________________ 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
