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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Georg Brandl <<a href="mailto:g.brandl@gmx.net">g.brandl@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As Nick said, a drop-in replacement in C isn't feasible<br>
<br>
But probably users of decimal won't really care if they have to slightly<br>
adapt their code if they get the speed increase instead.<br>
<br>
We had a SOC student working on decimal-c in the past, so it shouldn't be<br>
totally dead. What about this year's SOC?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I worry that rewriting Decimal in C in its entirety would make it<br>significantly harder to maintain. The IBM Decimal Specification<br>hasn't stabilised yet: there's another update to it expected some<br>
time after IEEE 754r is finally approved, so there are probably<br>still significant changes to be made to Decimal in the future.<br></div></div><br>I know that I would have contributed a lot less to Decimal had<br>it been written in C, simply because it would have taken me<br>
much more time to understand and modify the code.<br><br>Mark<br>
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