Decimal can be Binary Too (was decimal or rational)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.991705580.19214.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote:
>
>If, after (it's not done yet) people get to kick Decimal's tires, they're
>happy (OK, I'll settle for happier <wink>) with this approach, Aahz has been
>writing in it such a way that the performance-critical parts can be migrated
>to C easily.  If not, hey -- it's Python!  It's painless to throw away (and
>especially if you're not Aahz <wink>).

Not only that, but the intent (and the reason I started this project in
the first place) is to have the C code release the Global Interpreter
Lock so that multi-CPU machines get a speedup in decimal arithmetic.
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