2008/12/4 Raymond Hettinger
There're already some first steps in that direction, but *please* investigate that other path you're suggesting.
IMO, those efforts have been somewhat misdirected. They were going down the path of direct translation. Instead, there needs to be a pure implementation of the spec, using better data structures and then separately adding python wrappers. The first component needs to have its own efficient context objects and fast, temporary accumulators. The latter should match the current API.
I actually was talking about the issue 2486, which is the first step to "slowly, but steadily, replace parts of Decimal from Python to C as needed." I should have been more explicit, sorry for the confusion. Regards, -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/