STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > (Actually, that's a part of why decimal.py is slow---it's > using Python's *binary* integers to store *decimal* coefficients, > so that even simple addition is now a quadratic operation, > thanks to the binary <-> decimal conversions involved.)
Oh, I forgot this minor detail (base 2 vs base 10). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7652> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
