On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> wrote:
Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> wrote:
> * A C implementation of the "decimal" module, with up to 80x speedup
>     for decimal-heavy applications

Could you bump up the factor to 120x in the final announcement? There were
a couple of performance improvements in the meantime, and this is what I'm
consistently measuring now.

Is that based on Modules/_decimal/tests/bench.py or some other benchmark?