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
>
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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
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Sharoon Thomas
Business Analyst & Open Source ERP Consultant
CEO @ http://openlabs.co.in

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