Hi Nicolas, Hearty welcome :)
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Nicolas Évrard <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello the list, > > 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. > I hope you can be blamed for the leaving also ;) > > 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 > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > I support the idea assuming that there would be a fallback to the standard decimal library if the import of c library raises an ImportError. This will help deploy Tryton someday (I dont know when that is) in alternative implementations (like pypy, jyth etc) and also help the appengine plan - when it has the proposed SQL DB support. Thanks -- Sharoon Thomas Business Analyst & Open Source ERP Consultant CEO @ http://openlabs.co.in -- [email protected] mailing list
