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

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Fri Mar 23 10:22:55 CET 2012

Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> 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.

Seconded. This is the kind of stuff that will make 3.3 the most awesomest 3.x release ever (and hopefully convince people that it does make sense to port)...

Thanks! For cdecimal specifically I have the impression that 3.x is already used in the financial community, where web framework dependencies aren't an issue.

On the web side, there seems to be a huge interest in speeding up database accesses, so let me evangelize again: Database applications using decimal will run 12x faster in 3.3.

Stefan Krah

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