On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: > As Nick said, a drop-in replacement in C isn't feasible > > But probably users of decimal won't really care if they have to slightly > adapt their code if they get the speed increase instead. > > We had a SOC student working on decimal-c in the past, so it shouldn't be > totally dead. What about this year's SOC? > I worry that rewriting Decimal in C in its entirety would make it significantly harder to maintain. The IBM Decimal Specification hasn't stabilised yet: there's another update to it expected some time after IEEE 754r is finally approved, so there are probably still significant changes to be made to Decimal in the future. I know that I would have contributed a lot less to Decimal had it been written in C, simply because it would have taken me much more time to understand and modify the code. Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20080327/f1ce3379/attachment.htm
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