[Python-Dev] Decimal in C status (was Re: draft 3.1 release schedule) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 14:21:48 CET 2009

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Raymond Hettinger <python rcn.com> writes:

You might also want to collect a list of serious changes that you want in this release; I'm making minor updates to the decimal module to match the 1.68 version of the spec. What about decimal-in-C, by the way? Is anyone still working on it?

There was a bit of a difference in philosophy between Mark and Raymond as to how best to proceed with speeding it up (Mark's patch [1] focuses solely on speeding up mantissa manipulation, while Raymond suggested a more extensive rewrite in C would be preferable), so progress on the issue stalled.

It would probably require at least a comment from Raymond saying to proceed with the custom mantissa type approach to get that patch moving again. Alternatively, if Raymond actually gets the project sponsorship he mentioned a couple of months ago, that would also get things moving again (just in a different direction).

Cheers, Nick.

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue2486

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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