What's up with this code?

[Kent Johnson]

Gregory Petrosyan wrote:
> Again, thanks a lot!
> I'm optimising my polynomial module as hard as possible, because when
> it used native floats/integers it was very fast, but in some specific
> cases -- too inaccurate. So, I migrated to decimals, and module began
> to be very slow. Current success is nearly 4x speedup, and now it seems
> to me that decimals are the bottleneck. Is anybody working on C version
> of decimals? Is it a really hard work? (I am thinking about
> re-implementing decimals in C by myself)

Maybe gmpy would help?
http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/

Kent