Raymond Hettinger <[email protected]> added the comment:

Victor, yes, the decimal module needs a C implementation.  Without it, the pure 
Python code is abysmally slow.  Other MP implementations don't fill the need or 
come close to implementing the decimal arithmetic spec.

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