[Python-Dev] [RELEASE] Python 2.7.4 release candidate 1 (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Wed Mar 27 12:34:35 CET 2013

Andriy Kornatskyy <andriy.kornatskyy at live.com> wrote:

> but you can install this backport from PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdecimal/2.3

This is what I was looking for.

Note that for numerical work _decimal from Python3.3 is vastly faster than cdecimal. I've added two major speedups (credit for one of them goes to Antoine), so these are the numbers for the pi benchmark:

Python3.3 (_decimal): time: 0.15s Python3.3 (decimal.py): time: 17.22s

Python2.7 (cdecimal): time: 0.29s Python2.7 (decimal.py): time: 17.74s

For database work and such the numbers should be about the same.

Stefan Krah

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