[issue2486] Consider using bytes type instead of str to store Decimal coefficients

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

Hmm, I forgot there wasn't currently a direct path back from int ->
bytes. I think your numbers *do* show that we need to do something about
the performance of the Python 3.0 version of decimal. A 25% increase in
runtime is a pretty big performance hit.

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