[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Thu Mar 22 13:45:55 CET 2012


Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed >> up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are >> between 12x and 80x, depending on the application.

Congrats Stefan! And thanks for the huge chunk of code.

Thanks, much appreciated. I'll take the opportunity to thank you in return for the gigantic amount of work you've done on Python in the past year!

Stefan Krah



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