Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Raymond Hettinger <python <at> rcn.com> writes:
You might also want to collect a list of serious changes that you want in this release; I'm making minor updates to the decimal module to match the 1.68 version of the spec.
What about decimal-in-C, by the way? Is anyone still working on it?
There was a bit of a difference in philosophy between Mark and Raymond as to how best to proceed with speeding it up (Mark's patch [1] focuses solely on speeding up mantissa manipulation, while Raymond suggested a more extensive rewrite in C would be preferable), so progress on the issue stalled. It would probably require at least a comment from Raymond saying to proceed with the custom mantissa type approach to get that patch moving again. Alternatively, if Raymond actually gets the project sponsorship he mentioned a couple of months ago, that would also get things moving again (just in a different direction). Cheers, Nick. [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue2486 -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------