Bart Robinson added the comment: Six years later, I have accepted Amaury's challenge and created an extension module that uses the double-conversion library to generate repr's for floats: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/frepr
My rudimentary performance testing gives something like 8X speedup compared to the standard float_repr(). Scrutiny and suggestions welcome... ---------- nosy: +Bart Robinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12450> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
