[Python-Dev] Decimal(unicode)

[Facundo Batista]

2008/3/26, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

>  Basically, while it makes a lot of sense to move the *arithmetic* to C
>  (as Mark mentioned in his other post), there's a lot of ancillary stuff
>  related to flags and exceptions and context handling that is much easier
>  to handle in Python.

That's why we think that the most probably future move here is:

1. Code a small core in C.

2. Let the rest of Decimal in Py.

"small core" and "rest of Decimal" are moving targets.... we (as
python-dev) could decide that __add__ is really worthy to do it in C,
but not quantize(), for example.

Regards,

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