Hi David, > A toy example with a half dozen operations won't make huge fractions. A > loop over a million operations will often be a gigantic memory hog.
I do not propose to do that, and I agree that it would be stupid. Usually, the fraction gets very quickly converted into a float, and your millions of operations will be done with floats. Now I cannot guarantee that this is always the case, but doing millions of operations in Python directly is usually very slow anyways, so people tend to use numpy or alike. And those use floats, and I am not proposing to change that. But maybe I am all wrong and there is loads of code out there that would suffer from your problem, in this case, could you show me an example? Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7GOCRAANWQL3G7XUSTPXBZSZ4IG5FIPC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
