By the way, how much faster is cdecimal? 72x or 80x? http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.3.html#decimal
Victor 2012/3/23 Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org>: > Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >>> Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to >> >>> speed >> >>> up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are >> >>> between 12x and 80x, depending on the application. >> > >> > Congrats Stefan! And thanks for the huge chunk of code. >> >> Seconded. This is the kind of stuff that will make 3.3 the most awesomest >> 3.x release ever (and hopefully convince people that it does make sense to >> port)... > > Thanks! For cdecimal specifically I have the impression that 3.x is already > used in the financial community, where web framework dependencies aren't an > issue. > > On the web side, there seems to be a huge interest in speeding up database > accesses, so let me evangelize again: Database applications using decimal > will run 12x faster in 3.3. > > > Stefan Krah > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/victor.stinner%40gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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
