Hello Nicolas,

Am Dienstag, den 11.01.2011, 17:13 +0100 schrieb Nicolas Évrard:
> This is my first "real" post on this list. For those that don't know 
> me, I am the author of relatorio and just like Bertrand and Cédric a 
> former tiny employee (in fact I am the one to blame for Cédric's 
> hiring at tiny at that time ;)). I joined b2ck this 1st of January as 
> a shareholder in the company and as you already saw I made some 
> patches on the client.

a hearty welcome to you, Nicolas! Great to see you on board of B2CK and
Tryton.

> But the main reason for this message is to talk about a python module 
> implementing Decimal computation in C. I saw the cdecimal announce on 
> the python-announce list, this module is benchmarked to have 12x 
> speedup over the pure-python version of Decimal and is a drop-in 
> replacement for Decimal.
> 
> Did anybody have already used it ? Do you think this library should be 
> included in trytond ?
> 
> cdecimal homepage : http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/index.html

I've never used it, but took a quick look about the feature we need for
German implementation, which is ROUND_HALF_UP. As far as I can see it is
supported[1]. The twelve time speedup on psycopg sounds very promising.
I support the inclusion into Tryton.

[1] http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/doc/libmpdec/context.html#rounding

Cheers 
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