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

[Victor Stinner]

By the way, how much faster is cdecimal? 72x or 80x?
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.3.html#decimal

Victor

2012/3/23 Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org>:
> Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> >>>  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)...
>
> Thanks! For cdecimal specifically I have the impression that 3.x is already
> used in the financial community, where web framework dependencies aren't an
> issue.
>
> On the web side, there seems to be a huge interest in speeding up database
> accesses, so let me evangelize again: Database applications using decimal
> will run 12x faster in 3.3.
>
>
> Stefan Krah
>
>
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