[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 release candidate 3

Tim Delaney timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 23:50:39 CEST 2012


On 29 September 2012 06:51, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Wow! I had no idea cdecimal was that close in speed to float. That's
> seriously impressive.
>

If those numbers are similar in other benchmarks, would it be accurate
and/or reasonable to include a statement along the lines of:

"comparable to float performance - usually no more than 3x for calculations
within the range of numbers covered by float"

or is there not enough evidence to conclude that?

Substitute suitable factor for 3x.

Obviously
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