[Python-Dev] Expert floats

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 31, 2004, at 12:47 AM, Aahz wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote:
>> Please note that nowhere did I comment that creating such a C
>> implementation of Decimal would be easy or even possible. ;)
>
> Actually, the whole point of the Decimal class is that it's easy to
> implement.  Once we agree on the API and semantics, converting to C
> should be not much harder than trivial.
>
> Although I ended up dropping the ball, that's the whole reason I got
> involved with Decimal in the first place: the intention is that Decimal
> written in C will release the GIL.  It will be an experiment in
> computational threading.

That sounds like a phenomenally bad thing to advertise :)

-bob