[Python-Dev] Strategy for converting the decimal module to C
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 12:31:16 CEST 2006
Georg Brandl wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>> If the current approach
>> gets in their way, the C implementers should feel free to make an
>> alternate design choice.
>
> +1. (cDecimal is an ugly name, but a sound concept)
>
> I don't know what progress Mateusz' work has made until now, but he wrote
> at one time that he would "start optimizing as soon as he's certain that
> it works".
dmath (decimal-math, modelled on cmath for complex-math) could work.
Cheers,
Nick.
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