[issue2486] Decimal slowdown in 3.0 due to str/unicode changes
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Sep 15 17:49:45 CEST 2008
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
Sorry for the silence: new country + new job + no internet connection
outside work = not many opportunities to spend time on this (or any
other part of Python) at the moment.
I do now have a version 0.2 of the deccoeff type, and more importantly a
version of decimal.py that's adapted to use it; all tests in
test_decimal.py pass, which is a start. But there's significant work to
be done tidying up the code, identifying speed-critical bits, and moving
those bits from Python to C.
I'm wondering where to post the code; I could post a tarball here but
it's a bit unwieldy. Perhaps it would be worth creating a new branch to
work on this?
This definitely seems like a (>=) two-person task; any help would be
much appreciated! Thanks Facundo and Nick for comments so far. I also
wonder whether there are alternative approaches that might do better.
If we follow this approach, I'm doubtful about doing this for 3.0.1;
even though the API is unchanged, this seems like too big a change for a
bugfix release, with too great a risk of breakage.
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