On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:22:55 +0100 Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote: > 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.
Are you sure it isn't 12.5x ? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
