[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed

[Georg Brandl]

On 21.03.2012 23:22, Victor Stinner wrote:
>>> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7355550d5357
>>> changeset:   75850:7355550d5357
>>> user:        Stefan Krah <skrah at bytereef.org>
>>> date:        Wed Mar 21 18:25:23 2012 +0100
>>> summary:
>>>  Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed
>>> up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
>>> between 12x and 80x, depending on the application.
> 
> Congrats Stefan! And thanks for the huge chunk of code.

Seconded.  This is the kind of stuff that will make 3.3 the most awesomest
3.x release ever (and hopefully convince people that it does make sense to
port)...

cheers,
Georg