Stefan Krah wrote: > Mark Dickinson wrote: >> I think my biggest concern is maintenance: we'd be replacing >> 8500 lines of Python code in a single file, that several of the >> current core developers understand well, with 30000 (Stefan, is >> that about accurate?) lines of C in several files, that presumably >> none of the current core devs is familiar with right now. > > Ok, I think we could say that the sloc-counts are around 2600 lines of > Python vs. around 11500-12500 lines of C.
If maintenance is an issue, I would actually propose to compile the existing decimal.py using Cython (works with a few trivial modifications), add a few type decorators at the hot spots to make them really fast, and then use that as both the Python implementation and fast binary module. Stefan _______________________________________________ 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
