[Python-Dev] Decimal(unicode)

[Georg Brandl]

Mark Dickinson schrieb:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net 
> <mailto:g.brandl at gmx.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     As Nick said, a drop-in replacement in C isn't feasible
> 
>     But probably users of decimal won't really care if they have to slightly
>     adapt their code if they get the speed increase instead.
> 
> 
> Could you give me an example of the sort of adaptations that might be
> necessary, or the API changes that would be necessary to make a
> drop-in replacement possible?
> 
> Are you just talking about things like removing the context argument
> from __add__ and friends, or is it more serious than this?

One thing Nick already said is the handling of signal traps via a
dict with class keys -- with that, it's necessary to check the dict
all the time. Having e.g. a method to set traps would enable the
implementation to work with a bit field.

There were some other things I can't remember right now, but this was
the most problematic one.

Georg

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