long(Decimal) performance

[Aahz]

In article <1155349097.946873.279970 at b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
ajaksu <ajaksu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Running long(Decimal) is pretty slow, and the conversion is based on
>strings. I'm trying to figure out whether there is a good reason for
>using strings like in decimal.py (that reason would be bound to bite me
>down the road).

I'm not sure why it's coded that, but it's somewhat irrelevant: right
now, work is being done to convert decimal.py to C code, which will
almost certainly be much faster than your code.  Generally speaking, you
should not be using Decimal now with any expectation of speed.
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