[Python-Dev] Decimal in C status (was Re: draft 3.1 release schedule)

[Nick Coghlan]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger <python <at> rcn.com> writes:
> 
>>>>> You might also want to collect a list of serious changes that you
>>>>> want in this release;
>> I'm making minor updates to the decimal module to match the 1.68 version of
> the spec.
> 
> What about decimal-in-C, by the way? Is anyone still working on it?

There was a bit of a difference in philosophy between Mark and Raymond
as to how best to proceed with speeding it up (Mark's patch [1] focuses
solely on speeding up mantissa manipulation, while Raymond suggested a
more extensive rewrite in C would be preferable), so progress on the
issue stalled.

It would probably require at least a comment from Raymond saying to
proceed with the custom mantissa type approach to get that patch moving
again. Alternatively, if Raymond actually gets the project sponsorship
he mentioned a couple of months ago, that would also get things moving
again (just in a different direction).

Cheers,
Nick.

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue2486

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