[issue2486] Consider using bytes type instead of str to store Decimal coefficients
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Mar 26 01:55:19 CET 2008
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
Here's a first try at a patch that converts the Decimal coefficient
from type str to type bytes. It needs some work: here are some timings
for a complete run of the test suite (best of 3 in each case) on my
MacBook.
Python 3.0, str: 12.880s
Python 3.0, bytes: 13.294s
Python 2.6: 9.279s
Python 2.5: 9.212s
There's still some room for speedup with the bytes patch, but at the
moment it doesn't look as though performance alone is a compelling reason
to make this change.
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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9860/decimal_bytes.patch
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