[Python-Dev] Decimal(unicode)
Facundo Batista
facundobatista at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 13:54:29 CET 2008
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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. Facundo
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