[Python-checkins] CVS: python/nondist/sandbox/datetimedatetime.py,1.28,1.29

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [M.-A. Lemburg]
> > Looks a lot like what I do in mxDateTime.c :-)
> 
> The key difference is that the Dates.py Gregorian algorithms were loop-free,
> no matter how large or small the year, even if the year requires a million
> bits to express (although not even Guido may live long enough to verify that
> in person <wink>).

Oh, the mxDateTime algorithm is loop-free in a sense as well: 
the correction does at most 3 iterations, the month finder
at most 12 iterations.

I'll have a look at yours, though. Perhaps I can make the
algorithms a bit faster ;-) (oh, I like competition).

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