On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 09:39:33PM +0100, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > Yes, but having a faster fraction type would be great. SymPy doesn't > actually use the fractions module because it's too slow. Instead SymPy > has its own pure Python implementation that is a little faster and > will use gmpy2's mpq type if gmpy2 is installed. The mpq type is > something like 30x faster than Fraction. The fmpq type from > python_flint is around twice as fast again and is particularly fast > for small rationals.
Can we not improve the implementation of Fraction? What do the non-gmpy versions do that makes them faster? The statistics module relies on Fraction for much of its calculations, improving Fraction would have a direct benefit for that. Just sayin'... -- Steve _______________________________________________ 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/4QFTXHMHIUA6V5IQJT6XC45GXMIFMVC3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
