[Python-Dev] SIGCHECK() in longobject.c (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 12:49:27 CEST 2009

Mark Dickinson wrote:

This high-precision inefficiency could easily be fixed by using a dedicated 'decimal natural number' extension type for the Decimal coefficient, stored internally in base a suitable power of 10. I think this may be worth considering seriously. I'm not proposing this as an alternative to the huge task of rewriting the entire decimal module in C, by the way; it would be more a stop-gap measure that would be easy to implement, would slightly increase efficiency for normal operations, and vastly increase efficiency for high-precision operations.

Didn't you already start work on that concept with the deccoeff patch?

Cheers, Nick.

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

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