[Python-Dev] Expert floats (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Wed Mar 31 01:16:03 EST 2004

On Mar 31, 2004, at 12:47 AM, Aahz wrote:

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote:

Please note that nowhere did I comment that creating such a C implementation of Decimal would be easy or even possible. ;) Actually, the whole point of the Decimal class is that it's easy to implement. Once we agree on the API and semantics, converting to C should be not much harder than trivial. Although I ended up dropping the ball, that's the whole reason I got involved with Decimal in the first place: the intention is that Decimal written in C will release the GIL. It will be an experiment in computational threading.

That sounds like a phenomenally bad thing to advertise :)

-bob

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