Stefan Krah wrote:
Mark Dickinson wrote:
I think my biggest concern is maintenance: we'd be replacing 8500 lines of Python code in a single file, that several of the current core developers understand well, with 30000 (Stefan, is that about accurate?) lines of C in several files, that presumably none of the current core devs is familiar with right now.
Ok, I think we could say that the sloc-counts are around 2600 lines of Python vs. around 11500-12500 lines of C.
If maintenance is an issue, I would actually propose to compile the existing decimal.py using Cython (works with a few trivial modifications), add a few type decorators at the hot spots to make them really fast, and then use that as both the Python implementation and fast binary module.
Stefan